- From: Alan Rector <rector@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:14:20 +0100
- To: <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Cc: "'public-semweb-lifesci'" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Xiaoshu > > Here is my two cents on the topics. > > I actually hold a bit different opinion on this. I think at the > beginning > stage, one should try to do hand editing. I played around with > Protégé > before, I think because of historic reasons, it uses a lot of terms in > semantic network. I saw a lot of people discussing ontologies > using "slot", > "roles", etc. I don't have any grudge on protégé, which I think is > a great > software. But this sort of dialect is not healthy to advance SW > technologies. And I also that see many ontologies are developed > with an OO > thinking. Doing it manually actually helps to understand the > technology, at > least that is my experience. But of course, tool is useful to > speed things > up but only when people knows what the tool are doing for them. > > Xiaoshu > The OWL plugin on Protege-OWL now provides a standard vocabulary for the OWL / RDF versions with some 'syntactic sugar' to conserve screen space and (we hope) improve understanding Alan > > > ----------------------- Alan Rector Professor of Medical Informatics Department of Computer Science University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL, UK TEL +44 (0) 161 275 6188/6149 FAX +44 (0) 161 275 6204 www.cs.man.ac.uk/mig www.clinical-esciences.org www.co-ode.org
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