RE: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base

Hello,
  There are many elements of warehousing semantic data that have yet to
be solved, both in terms of efficient algorithms for storage, indexing,
retrieval and visualization as well as in the core representation of
knowledge. In developing tools and applications, I'm quite sure that
both Mark and Egon appreciate outstanding challenges to both. Yet it's
important to emphasize that both warehousing and data federation have
their respective roles in data management, we shouldn't bother engaging
in an argument about which is better. The Semantic Web is primarily
about sharing data with explicit and meaningful relations using
standardized KR languages, with the hopes that good schemas/ontologies
will encourage data integration. Ultimately, making data/knowledge
available helps reduce the burden of getting a project started so that
people can focus on more interesting things, like knowledge discovery
activities such as mashups, data mining and answering questions about
life, the universe and everything. We'll get back to the science we
really want to do soon enough.
 
Cheers!

-=Michel=-


> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-
> lifesci-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: October-14-09 7:40 AM
> To: Egon Willighagen; Matthias Samwald
> Cc: public-semweb-lifesci
> Subject: Re: [hcls] Updated wiki page for HCLS Knowledge Base
> 
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:51:07 -0700, Egon Willighagen
> <egon.willighagen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Just think of it like this: if you aggregated the data already in
the
> > way the scientists wants it, he is no longer doing cutting edge
> > science (it's already been done!).
> 
> 
> Perfectly stated!  :-)
> 
> Moreover, warehousing in and of itself isn't research, nor is it
> pushing
> "the state of the art", nor is it semantic web (IMO), nor is it even
> linked data (IMO).  We don't need RDF to make warehouses!  This is why
> I
> am "irked" when I see our own group admitting that RDF-Web-crawling is
> "nice", but it's just too much fuss, so we'll capitulate and build a
> warehouse anyway.  In what way does it encourage the wider community
to
> adopt semantic web technologies when even WE admit that using them
> ("properly") is just too much trouble?
> 
> Sorry that I keep dropping-out of this conversation after starting it
-
> I'm at the OGF Summit in Banff and, as always, the wireless at the
> conference site can only handle a small fraction of the number of
> people
> trying to use it :-)  so I am basically Blackberry-only this week...
> 
> Cheers all!
> 
> M

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