- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:21:38 -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: > 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. Sure, and so they should :-) As per my earlier comments, the real-time edition of DBpedia will shrink change reflection interval.. Kingsley > > -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/ >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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