Re: [BIONT] Senselab project ontologies.

alan,

> Perhaps we could review these at our next conference call. For
> instance the ontologies choose to create an instance of each leaf
> class for populating instances corresponding to database entries with
> these values. What do people think of this?

This is an often used technique to keep ontologies/knowledge bases OWL DL.
There is a very nice article on this subject at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-classes-as-values

jb


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Ruttenberg" <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
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Cc: "Alan Rector" <rector@cs.man.ac.uk>; "Robert Stevens"
<robert.stevens@manchester.ac.uk>; "Matthias Samwald" <samwald@gmx.at>
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:46 PM
Subject: [BIONT] Senselab project ontologies.


>
> Kei Chung has updated the Senselab BioRDF here.
>
> http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/Tasks/SenseLab
>
> In it he points to the NeuroWeb web site
>
> http://128.36.123.50/NeuroWeb/
>
> Which contains links to OWL ontologies for cocodat and neurondb (plus
> a sampling of data).
>
> Perhaps we could review these at our next conference call. For
> instance the ontologies choose to create an instance of each leaf
> class for populating instances corresponding to database entries with
> these values. What do people think of this?
>
> I don't think we have a TC planned for this coming tuesday, but if
> there is sufficient interest we can set one up. Otherwise we can talk
> about it the following week.
>
> -Alan
>
>
>

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