- From: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain@isb-sib.ch>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:09:03 +0200
- To: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- CC: eneumann@teranode.com, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, wangxiao@musc.edu, Michel_Dumontier <Michel_Dumontier@carleton.ca>, 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>
Matthias Samwald wrote: > Well, they might talk like database entries and physical objects would > be the same, but this is not what they *think*. With the Semantic Web / > ontologies we want to capture the semantics and the actual thinking, not > the linguistic / textual surface representations. http://purl.uniprot.org/uniprot/P12345 does not represent any physical object, but it is a useful generalization of certain physical objects that you might find. It's an artificial construct, which is why having a separate concept for a corresponding "database record" seems like overkill?
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