Re: Health Care and Life Sciences SemanticWb on iPhone and iPod touch

2009/12/18 Donald Doherty <donald.doherty@actionpotential.com>:
> Hi Kei,
>
> Great to hear from you and the podcast idea is excellent. I wonder, is there
> any effort to have semantics attached to the podcasts? That'd be cool to
> have triples indicating content.
>
> The main difficulty with making an iPhone app work with multiple SPARQL
> endpoints, from my perspective, is due to 1) differing coverage and content,
> 2) differing structures, and 3) differing URIs. Number 3 is the easiest to
> deal with.
>
> An application that goes straight to the endpoints without using a server to
> do translation, aggregation, etc. across endpoints must either do all of
> this itself (too much for an iPhone app) or get its full content  from the
> endpoint it uses.
>
> Detailed PubMed information, for instance, is a very important feature to
> scientists. Only the Bio2RDF endpoints provide details including abstracts
> in RDF. All endpoints seem to have the authors associated with a particular
> paper but a big limitation of every endpoint is that it is impossible to
> reconstruct the order of the authors. (At least I haven't found a way.)

Are you interested in the complete order or just the first author
separate from all of the rest?

Cheers,

Peter

Received on Thursday, 17 December 2009 22:03:19 UTC