- From: Jonathan Rees <jonathan.rees@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:45:35 -0400
- To: Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "Mark Wilkinson" <markw@illuminae.com>, "Benjamin Good" <goodb@interchange.ubc.ca>, "Natalia Villanueva Rosales" <naty.vr@gmail.com>
On 7/10/07, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca> wrote: > > Unfortunately, this again demonstrates the problem in which the > identifier for a biological entity - say mitochondrial Aspartate > aminotransferase resolves to a nicely formatted HTML page. What if I > have a semantic web application in which I would like to retrieve more > information about this resource? Since the document is not an RDF > document with machine understandable statements about it, it seems that > my application wouldn't be able to learn anything more about > http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 A document CAN be both an RDF document and a "nice" HTML document. One method for doing this is XML stylesheets (e.g. http://bioguid.info/rdf/doi:10.1109/mis.2006.62 ). Another method is RDFa (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa). A third is the use of meta links in the HTML header (I am not very familiar with this - and I know it is very limited - so don't shoot me for mentioning it). Yes, RDFa is not well deployed, but in my opinion it is such a good idea that it will be deployed. Most browsers are able to ignore the RDF, and some RDF consumers such as Jena already understand it. Jonathan
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