- From: Nigam Shah <nigam@stanford.edu>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:49:19 -0700
- To: "'Matthias Samwald'" <samwald@gmx.at>, <brandizi@ebi.ac.uk>, "'Eric Neumann'" <eneumann@teranode.com>
- Cc: "'W3C HCLSIG hcls'" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "'M. Scott Marshall'" <marshall@science.uva.nl>
>Matthias Samwald wrote: >... but the result is much >more useful when some basic ontology design criteria are met and the >information in the source databases is re-interpreted to form a >meaningful ontology. Unfortunately I cannot point you to a short, >comprehensive document that would describe the design philosophy I am >thinking of -- this is something that still needs to be written, I >guess. > > >[1] http://www.obofoundry.org/ro/ >[2] http://www.ifomis.uni-saarland.de/bfo/ >[3] http://obofoundry.org/ Barry Smith and I did a tutorial on how to make and use Biomedical Ontologies at ISMB 2007. The handout is at http://tinyurl.com/3dxeg8. Section 5, do's and don't's of ontology creation summarizes a lot of the design criteria. (Section -5 contains materials provided by Barry Smith and Andrew Spear). Cheers, Nigam.
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