- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:18:58 -0400
- To: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- CC: Kei Cheung <kei.cheung@yale.edu>, public-semweb-lifesci <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Matthias Samwald wrote: > 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, All good, but any changes have to go through Wikipedia re. DBpedia. Kingsley > > > > > >> 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/ >>> >> > > -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen President & CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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