- From: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:17:10 -0400
- To: public-semweb-lifesci hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Ok, So a key concern for me is how I, as a user of public resources, should make statements about them on the semantic web. While certain data providers might already providing RDF/OWL data with some URI, what about those that have yet to do this? How should I reference a public resource provided by the SGD [1] or candidadb [2]? Moreover, what about the ~1000 database [3] with valuable content, much of it locked away in relational databases or flat files? How do I make statements about these resources, without taking the responsibility of serving it up in my own namespace [4], which might ultimately not integrate with content from another 3rd party content provider. Inline with my previous comments about the value of the semantic web for data integration, it would be of great value to have data providers _register_ the namespace of their resources. In fact, coupling NAR database issue with base URI registration would open up entirely new worlds for data integration. Do you think this is worthwhile or feasible? What other approaches might be considered to alleviate this problem? Cheers, -=Michel=- [1] http://www.yeastgenome.org/ [2] http://genolist.pasteur.fr/CandidaDB/ [3] http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol35/suppl_1/index.dtl [4] http://bio2rdf.org/
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