- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:08:58 -0700
- To: samwald@gmx.at
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
> > Just catching up on reading papers :-) >> >> <http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/8/S3/S2> >> >> "It is also useful to know who believes something and why. However, there >> is no standard way of expressing such information about a statement [...]" >> >> Reification? > >To return to the original question: In many of the biomedical >ontologies we are currently using or developing most of the >biological relations that matter ARE already reified. ? See below >For example, most current ontologies would not contain the statement >"<A> <binds_to> <B>", rather they would contain the two statements >"<binding_process> <has_participant> <A> . <binding_process> ><has_participant> <B>". OK, but that's not reification. Its what is often called role-based descriptions. It introduces the binding process into the vocabulary which is almost certainly a good idea, but it doesn't give you a way to talk about the assertion itself. >Statements about believe, evidence and provenance can be easily >attached to "<binding_process>". Hmm. They could, but that isn't really internally coherent. If this is supposed to be the name of a process, then its doesn't make sense to say that it has a provenance or that it is subject to belief. If on the other hand it's a propositional kind of thing, then it doesn't make sense to say that it has participants. >We have already done this for some ontologies we developed for the >Banff demo. I think that this approach will proof to be sufficient >for most use cases, It will work for a while, then it will break when things get more complicated. Its a hack; hacks work, but one shouldn't forget that they are hacks, and will need to be re-done properly eventually. Pat Hayes >and that the need for reification or fine-grained labeling of graphs >is generally quite low (but I guess there are exceptions). > >-- Matthias Samwald > >Yale Center for Medical Informatics, New Haven / >Section on Medical Expert and Knowledge-Based Systems, Vienna / >http://neuroscientific.net > > > >. >-- >GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. >Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 cell phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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