- From: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:16:09 +0000
- To: public-owl-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Stefan Schulz <stschulz@uni-freiburg.de>
Forwarded with the permission of the author: Begin forwarded message: > From: Stefan Schulz <stschulz@uni-freiburg.de> > Date: 3 February 2009 10:20:32 GMT > To: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>, Stefan Schulz > <stschulz@uni-freiburg.de>, "R.Cornet@amc.uva.nl" > <R.Cornet@amc.uva.nl>, Christine Golbreich > <christine.golbreich@univ-rennes1.fr> > Subject: Support for OWL2 > > Dear Ian, > > we have been asked by Christine Golbreich to express the support of > AMIA KR-WG (Working Group of Formal Biomedical Knowledge > Representation) to the OWL2 development efforts. > > AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) represents the U.S. > Medical Informatics scientific community but offers also a world wide > forum for researchers devoted to improving health care and biomedical > research through informatics. AMIA has always put a strong emphasis on > the improvement of semantic interoperability through natural language > technologies, controlled vocabularies and formal ontologies. Its > Biomedical Knowledge Representation Working Group we are chairing has > organized several events that brought together Medical Informatics > researchers with people working in the fields of artificial > intelligence, formal ontologies, and terminological standards. > > With the evolution of SNOMED CT, the importance of description > logics-based formalisms is increasing, and the AMIA KR-WG is > especially interested in issues of reasoning and scalability. Although > there are still major barriers to enable full OWL-DL reasoning support > for large biomedical ontologies, the step to OWL 2 is nevertheless > welcome as it provides more flexibility and as it will stimulate a new > generation of reasoners. > > KR-WG encourages the further evolution of OWL 2 and believes that it > will open new perspectives in making biomedical data and knowledge > interoperable and computable. KR-WG is also looking forward to > fruitful and challenging collaborations with the Semantic Web and > Description Logics communities. > > Kind regards > > Stefan Schulz > Ronald Cornet > > > ############################################################### > Stefan SCHULZ (apl. Prof. Dr. med.) > Universitätsklinikum - Institut für Medizinische > Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik > Stefan-Meier-Strasse 26 D-79104 Freiburg > +49 (0)761 2036725, 2049089, FAX 2036711 > http://purl.org/steschu > [stschulz@uni-freiburg.de], Skype: stschulz > > ############################################################### > > Ronald Cornet, PhD email: R.Cornet@amc.uva.nl > dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 > Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 > P.O.Box 22700 www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/ > home/rcornet/ > 1100 DE Amsterdam > The Netherlands 'The truth is out there'
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