Re: URIs

Alan,

I find myself continually groping for the requirements. Could you 
provide a specific example of what you want to do with the URI in RDF, 
i.e. a specific piece of RDF with a specific gene? It might help us to 
frame the discussion (if you still have time!).

It seems like what we'd all like to have is a central authority that 
will provide a web-accessible registry of commonly used references. 
That's why I was encouraged by Ben Szekely's posting[1]. Let's not 
forget to discuss LSID's and how they would (not?) fit into the picture.

[1]http://www.w3.org/mid/OFC5D7E901.5F3825EB-ON85257169.0060CA27-85257169.006B0FEE@us.ibm.com

-scott


> It will part of our social process to come to some understand and 
> agreement about what would be useful for us to have come back, if 
> anything. Is it an RDF graph? A bunch of OWL definitions of things 
> related to the gene? A representation of the asn record? A page of HTML? 
> All of the above?

I think that it would be very useful if a definition, i.e. an OWL class, 
came back.

-- 
M. Scott Marshall
http://integrativebioinformatics.nl/

Received on Monday, 19 June 2006 14:37:47 UTC