Re: One ontology schema - heterogeneous instance bases

Andrea Splendiani wrote:
> This is not the point. The idea is that a user of a URIs should accept a 
> commitment to a shared conceptualizazion.
> And strictly speaking... information such as authors don't need to be 
> "in the ontology"... meaning... are we going to define classes in the 
> real world depending on authors ? (hope this doesn't open a huge thread).

If you need to represent publications in your data, then the concept of 
"author" certainly is important. But I don't know BioPAX well enough to 
have an opinion on the importance of authorship in BioPAX :-)

Received on Monday, 10 September 2007 14:10:13 UTC