- From: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:30:08 -0500
- To: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- CC: Donald Doherty <donald.doherty@actionpotential.com>, HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Forgot to cc the list. -Kei Kei Cheung wrote: > Hi Don, > > Donald Doherty wrote: > >> 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. > > > Check out the Neuropod feeds at: > > http://feeds.nature.com/nature/podcast/neuropod?format=xml > > These feeds (XML format) describe different neuroscience podcasts. One > can choose to listen to podcasts relating to dopamine neuron, > Alzheimer disesae, etc. > > The semantic web and podcasts can make neuroscience "music to our ears". > > Have fun! > > -Kei > >> >> 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.) >> >> Don >> >> On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Kei Cheung wrote: >> >>> Hi Don, >>> >>> Donald Doherty wrote: >>> >>>> Scott Marshall suggested that people on the HCLS list would have >>>> fun with my SemanticWb iPhone and iPod touch app >>>> (www.actionpotential.com ). >>> >>> >>> >>> Mobile neuroscience sounds an interesting concept. You may also >>> want to use it to play the neuroscience podcasts of interest. >>> >>>> >>>> It's one of many technologies I play around with to test the >>>> potential (and current limits) of the Semantic Web and Semantic >>>> Web technologies (for instance, see my site using MIT Simile >>>> technology at www.historicshadyside.org). >>>> >>>> Currently SemanticWb is using Bio2RDF endpoints. I'm working to >>>> make it possible for the user to select from a number of SPARQL >>>> endpoints but it's unfortunately non-trivial. >>> >>> >>> Is it because of the bandwidth issue? I think it'd be nice if it >>> can also access other endpoints like the HCLS KB's. That reminds me >>> that Scott had mentioned to me recently that the HCLS KB endpoint >>> at Berlin could not be accessible. I wonder if it has been fixed yet. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> -Kei >>> >>>> >>>> Enjoy! And I'll be happy to talk about lessons learned. >>>> >>>> Donald Doherty, Ph.D. >>>> donald.doherty@actionpotential.com >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
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