Re: beyond 'formal' relations: describing relations between scientific and non-scientific material

Hi Dennis --

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is an example
showing how we derive relations from the basic RDF vocabularies.

We write syllogism-like rules in open vocabulary English into a browser,
e.g.

*some-paper is related by fact#:title to some-title
that-paper is related by fact#:author to some-description
that-description is related by some-rdf-node to some-home-page
that-home-page is related by fact#:name to some-name
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
that-name is an author of the publication that-title
*

and then we run them, again in the browser.

Please see [1,2] for details.

Hope this helps.

                                      -- Adrian

[1]
www.reengineeringllc.com/A_Wiki_for_Business_Rules_in_Open_Vocabulary_Executable_English.pdf

[2]  Internet Business Logic
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English over SQL and
RDF
Online at www.reengineeringllc.com    Shared use is free

Adrian Walker
Reengineering

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:33 AM, Dennis - UT <dv.eprints@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are currently working on a repository for OAI ORE resource maps (
> http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/toc). In this system we are trying to
> describe relations between scientific publications and other material (both
> scientific and non-scientific). To do this we are planning to use several
> (RDF) vocabularies / ontologies.
>
> A question is: how to cope with diversity in scientific disciplines and
> communication on the one hand and standardizing relation descriptions when
> aggregating publications about a certain topic? Vocabularies now available
> (FOAF, DCterms, etc) mainly restrict to formal relations and do not include
> relations concerning the content in a more detailed way than for instance
> 'dc:subject'. This may be the consequence of the diversity in scientific
> semantics. Is there any literature/article about this issue?
>
> An example case is describing relations between scientific publications and
> their 'application'. For example: a publication proposes certain changes,
> government policy makers later decide to create actual policies based on
> this information. So far we didn’t find any existing solution to describe
> such relations. Suggestions on existing vocabularies to describe / annotate
> such relations are very welcome, thanks!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dennis
> University of Twente
>
>