RE: Suggested HCLS Practice #1 (was Re: Antwort: RE: Semantic web article in Nature Biotechnology)

> > Yes, the RDF/OWL file should be accessed from the ontologies'  
> > namespace.
> > RDF's namespace differs from XML's.  The latter only 
> promises a unique 
> > string (that is why XML has schemaLocation tag but not in 
> RDF) but the 
> > former promise a set of axioms.


Another best practice suggestion. At least one of the targeted value of
"rdfs:isDefinedBy" shall point to a resource that is HUMAN READABLE and
offers explanation to the ontology in question.

Rationale:

Given an ontology, I don't think anyone is willing to go through the RDF/XML
document and pickup the content from rdfs:comment or dc:description etc.
tag.  These tag will help an application to generate human readable document
but it is designed for machine.  Besides, there is no way to include
graphics, which I think is very important to human communication as well.
(It also the reason I devised the annotation language DLG2, which I
submitted a manuscript to Journal of web semantics but not heard back yet).

Received on Friday, 30 September 2005 15:30:47 UTC