- From: John Wilbanks <wilbanks@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:56:19 -0400
- To: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
I've collated these responses and sent them along to the semantic web team here at W3C - I'll keep the list apprised of progress. Eric Jain wrote: > John Wilbanks wrote: > >> what do you mean by "a mechanism for grouping together > > > a set of statements in a file would be welcome" > > The problem here is that we do not manage data on the level of > individual statements or resources, but by protein, for example. A > protein may be described by several resources and many statements. > Some resources may be described in detail in a different data set, and > therefore only need to be referenced. Other resources are specific to > a protein, and therefore need to be stored along with any other data > on the protein. > > While most people are happy with being able to retrieve data for > individual proteins from a web server, some need to download the > complete data set. As there are more than a million proteins, > distributing the data in separate files, one per protein, is not > practical (couldn't find any implementation of zip/unzip that could > handle this :-). But if all data is merged into one file, it is no > longer trivial to reconstruct the original sets of statements. > > Note that TriX introduces a solution for "grouping statements" with > help of a "graph" element. Jena on the other hand has the concept of > "models". -- John Wilbanks W3C Fellow Semantic Web - Life Sciences http://www.w3.org/People/all#wilbanks wilbanks@w3.org 617-253-5845 (direct) 617-838-6333 (mobile; best voicemail #) --
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