- From: Matthew Pocock <matthew.pocock@ncl.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 14:37:52 +0100
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Owl Dev <public-owl-dev@w3.org>, Robert Stevens <robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk>
On Friday 28 September 2007, Bijan Parsia wrote: > Hi folks, > > The OWLED task force on DatabasEsque features: > http://code.google.com/p/owl1-1/wiki/DatabasEsque > > Well, at least Uli and me, have been doing a bit of work on keys > (aka, inverseFunctional datatype properties) prompted by a visit to > Manchester by Matthew Pocock. Some sort of keys is a pretty high > value feature. However, if you check out this poster: > http://webont.org/owled/taskforces/dbe/keys_poster.pdf Thanks for opening this up Bijan. Here in bioinformatics land, we are drowning under entities that have been given IDs - bar codes, LSIDs, db/accession, database-table/primary-key and so on. I think what is being proposed would be sufficient to allow us to allow us to join stuff back up *where these keys have been asserted* which is our primary and most pressing use-case. In doing so, it would remove one of the major barriers to the wide adoption of OWL in bioinformatics. Matthew
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