Re: HCLS Homework done ;)

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Alasdair J G Gray <
Alasdair.Gray@manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hey Michel,
>
> I've gone through the spreadsheet and added my votes.
>
> excellent. i have also done so.


> I added another ontology for capturing the primary reference for a
> dataset: the cito ontology.
>
> very good.


> I think there are three (conflicting) principles that we should keep in
> mind when coming up with these guidelines:
>
>    1. What is best practice in the global community? I am think of DCAT
>    when I state this as that has a broad community behind it and we should
>    definitely be compatible/mappable to.
>
> agreed. dcat is widely used on the semantic web. a good way to find out,
is to use the lod cloud instance:

http://lod.openlinksw.com/sparql

with query on dct:identifier:
http://sparqlbin.com/#2448458782fb5982d9786d261b15c971



>
>    1. What is the breadth of vocabularies we are using? The smaller the
>    number the easier it will be for others to come and use the recommendation.
>
>
ideally we would be selecting from those that offer maximum coverage.


>
>    1. Are we abusing predicates? Do they capture what we are stating?
>
>
> we'll definitely have to double check by reading out their definition as
we go though the list.

m.


> Best regards,
>
> Alasdair
>
> Dr Alasdair J G Gray
> Research Associate
> Alasdair.Gray@manchester.ac.uk
> +44 161 275 0145
>
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>
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-- 
Michel Dumontier
Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Carleton University
Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest Group
http://dumontierlab.com