Re: RDF Schema / LODD mapping -- Re: New proposal: health & medical extensions to schema.org from Kerstin Forsberg on 2012-05-23 (public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org from May 2012)

From: Kerstin Forsberg <kerstin.l.forsberg@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 00:11:57 +0200
To: Matthias Samwald <matthias.samwald@meduniwien.ac.at>
Cc: Stuart Turner <turner.stuart@gmail.com>, "Luciano, Joanne S." <luciaj2@rpi.edu>, "Solbrig, Harold R." <Solbrig.Harold@mayo.edu>, "R. Cornet" <r.cornet@amc.uva.nl>, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com>, "Freimuth, Robert, Ph.D." <Freimuth.Robert@mayo.edu>, Jim McCusker <james.mccusker@yale.edu>, Aaron Brown <abbrown@google.com>, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>, Renato Iannella <ri@semanticidentity.com>, "Lin MD,Simon" <LINMD.SIMON@mcrf.mfldclin.edu>, "<public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
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23 maj 2012 kl. 23:55 skrev "Matthias Samwald" <matthias.samwald@meduniwien.ac.at>:

> Dear all,
> 
> I think these details are relevant for reasoning about patient data et cetera., but the documentation of schema.org and the proposed medical extensions make it very clear that they are not intended for such tasks. I think that the issues highlighted here are not highly relevant for basic entity annotation and capturing basic statements used for improved retrieval of information on the web -- as intended by the people driving these projects. Let's try not to scare them away! :-)
> 

Agree - I wrote a blogpost on this  inspired by a quote by Dan B.: 

"Describe things vs Improve markup of pages that describe things"
http://kerfors.blogspot.se/2012/04/describe-things-vs-improve-markup-of.html

- Kerstin

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