Re: DBpedia to OBO mapping: did someone already work on it?

Michel_Dumontier wrote:
> But Kei - if you are aware that differences exist between these
> entities, that they are unequivocally _not_ the same - then you should
> not use owl:sameAs. A better relation is rdfs:seeAlso ... that they are
> related in some way, but there is uncertainty as to what the relation
> is, until the community figures out how exactly.
>
> -=Michel=-
>   
But in the Wikipedia domain (at this point in time): they have been 
asserted to be the same. Thus, DBpedia should reflect this. If Wikipedia 
changes in due course, so will DBpedia.  btw - We will soon be moving to 
the live Wikipedia updates edition of DBpedia and the lag time will 
diminish accordingly re. change reflection.


Kingsley
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-
>> lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Kei Cheung
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:32 PM
>> To: Kingsley Idehen
>> Cc: Matthias Samwald; public-semweb-lifesci
>> Subject: Re: DBpedia to OBO mapping: did someone already work on it?
>>
>> I think sameAs might be a better reflection (than redirect) of what is
>> being said in wikipedia (human readable page). Again this doesn't
>> reflect the opinion of the neuroscience community. With this
>> understanding in mind, I think it might be OK to make the update. Of
>> course, we may still change it in the future.
>>
>> -Kei
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>>     
>>> 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/
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>       
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Received on Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:19:50 UTC