- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:30:47 +0100
- To: Carole Goble <carole@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: Eric Miller <em@w3.org>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
Carole Goble wrote: > > Eric > > I applaud the initiative, but why "the business value" only? We have > seen that Uniprot RDF is a public service, not a commercial > initiative. The public repositories, organisations like EMBL and NCBI, > and local labs who produce valuable curation services and tools, do > not talk in terms of "business value" but it the value to the > scientific community. ...who are themselves at one remove from the ultimate beneficiaries. The point of all this presumably is to improve the health and hence happiness of ordinary folk around the world. Dan > Its ain't all Pharmas :-)
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