- From: Eric Neumann <eneumann@teranode.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 14:53:16 -0400
- To: larry.hunter@uchsc.edu
- Cc: w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Hmmm.... I seem to remember at an Ontology panel at ISMB last year in Detroit you were advocating the Anarchists approach to ontologies.... ; ) Eric --- Larry Hunter <Larry.Hunter@uchsc.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:48 -0400, Tim Clark wrote: > > > I would also claim that data is *not useful* > unless linked to and > > explicated by a publication by those who derived > it. You know: > > "Hypothesis", "Materials and Methods", > "Interpretation", etc. all the > > stuff you find in peer-reviewed papers (not to > mention "References")!! > > Personally, I agree with this. I wasn't endorsing > AJ's proposal, just > imploring him not to undertake a project that > involved building Yet > Another Idiosyncratic Ontology (pronounced YAIO!). > > > Although this is a bit off topic, now that there are > well established > community processes for vetting ontologies in > bioinformatics (see > http://bioontology.org), I think that anyone > proposing YAIO without > using that process is being destructive of a fragile > but promising turn > of events in our field. > > Larry > >
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