- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:56:05 -0400
- To: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>
- CC: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Kei Cheung wrote: > Matthias, > > In DBPedia, the following pages describe 2 brain regions > (Telencephalon and Cerebrum): > > http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon > http://dbpedia.org/page/Cerebrum <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon> dbpprop:redirect <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cerebrum> DBpedia world view should be formally expressed as: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Telencephalon> owl:sameAs <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cerebrum> Based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telencephalon which reads: The *cerebrum or telencephalon*, together with the diencephalon, constitute the forebrain.... If doesn't set off a war, I'll issue a SPARQL Update :-) Kingsley > > 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/ >> > > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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