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

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/
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
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Received on Thursday, 26 March 2009 20:22:23 UTC