- From: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:54:11 +0100
- To: "Kei Cheung" <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- Cc: "public-semweb-lifesci" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Kei, The entry for Telencephaolon redirects to Cerebrum, which suggests that 'telencephalon' and 'cerebrum' are synonyms that refer to the same thing / the same class of things. Reflecting on the neuroscientific literature I read, the term 'telencephalon' is more often used in context of the developing brain, while the term 'cerebrum' is more often used in the context of the adult brain. owl:sameAs or owl:equivalentClass might be ok here, but I would need to analyze the literature more thoroughly. Alternatively, a relationship such as 'Cerebrum derives_from Telencephalon' could be stated (derives_from is a relation defined in the relation ontology [1]). Cheers, Matthias [1] http://www.obofoundry.org/ro/#OBO_REL:derives_from > Matthias, > > In DBPedia, the following pages describe 2 brain regions (Telencephalon > and Cerebrum): > > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon > http://dbpedia.org/page/Cerebrum > > NIFSTD is listed as one of the neuroscience ontologies through BioPortal, > its description of cerebrum is available at: > > http://bioportal.bioontology.org/visualize/39595/p15:birnlex_1042 > > If you read the editorial note (written by Bill Bug), it says: > > "It isn't clear all would agree Cerebrum and Telencephalon are > equivalent." > > Should we use "sameAs" or something else? > > Cheers, > > -Kei > > > Matthias Samwald wrote: >> Question: Does a mapping between DBpedia and the OBO ontologies exist? >> Has someone already invested some time in doing this, or at least >> reviewed how to best approach it? >> >> Given the central position of DBpedia in the linked data cloud and its >> rich content in the biomedical domain, creating such a mapping is an >> obvious (and very useful) thing to do. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Matthias Samwald >> >> DERI Galway, Ireland >> http://deri.ie/ >> >> Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria >> http://kli.ac.at/ >> >
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