- From: Mathieu D'Aquin <m.daquin@open.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:41:33 +0000
- To: Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
- Cc: "semantic-web@w3.org\"" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 26 Feb 2010, at 21:26, Marco Neumann wrote: > Well, it looks like we don't get a prompt answer. Mathieu in case you > work on the neon project could you please fix the link for Deliverable > D9.1.1: Initial market assessment & market intelligence for NeOn here: > > http://www.neon-project.org/nw/Deliverables OK, done. Thanks for pointing that out. Mathieu. > Marco > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Mathieu D'Aquin > <m.daquin@open.ac.uk> wrote: >> Hi Alexander, >> >> Just a quick answer to two of your questions (I am sure somebody >> else will >> promptly answer the others and Marco's). >> >>> Taking the risk of being annoying I'd also ask, how is NeON's >>> Modularization approach different from previously proposed ones? >> >> That certainly depends on which previously proposed approaches you >> are >> referring to, but the major difference in my opinion is that the >> tools for >> modularization in the NeOn toolkit don't focus on one specific >> modularization task (module extraction, partitioning, composition), >> or on >> one specific, pre-defined set of modularization criteria, but offer a >> variety of relatively simple "operators" to build custom made >> modularizations of ontologies. >> >> Of course, this is just the quick answer. You can have a look at >> [1], [2] >> and of course the NeOn deliverable D1.1.4 [3] if you are interested >> in this >> particular aspect (and of course, I am always open to discussions >> on this >> topic). >> >>> Also, >>> regarding Watson, how is Watson an alternative to bioportal. >> >> Oh, that's an easy one: it is not. >> >>> From >>> whAt I have seen Watson does not offer everything bioportal does. >> >> Of course, they are completely different systems. Bioportal is an >> ontology >> repository and Watson is an ontology search engine. Watson >> automatically >> crawls the Web to find ontologies to index, Bioportal relies on a >> community >> of users to submit ontologies (currently in the biomedical domain, >> but I >> understand that the technology is generic). >> >> But maybe you are referring to Cupboard, which is an ontology >> repository >> based on the Watson engine (as well as on an alignment server, an >> ontology >> metadata registry and an ontology reviewing mechanism). Making a >> complete >> list of the differences between these two systems goes well beyond >> what can >> be done in a single e-mail. It is important to notice however that >> we are >> certainly not trying to enter a competition here. Each system has >> its own >> strengths, and I don't believe that thinking in terms of one being an >> alternative to the other is the right approach. As far as I am >> concerned, >> collaboration and interoperability between systems like Bioportal and >> Cupboard is one of the reasons for a workshop like ORES [4] and for >> a number >> of other initiatives to exist. >> >> Best, >> Mathieu. >> >> [1] d'Aquin, M., Schlicht, A., Stuckenschmidt, H., Sabou, M., (2009) >> Criteria and Evaluation for Ontology Modularization Technique. In >> Heiner >> Stuckenschmidt, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra (ed) Modular >> Ontologies: Concepts, Theories and Techniques for Knowledge >> Modularization, >> Criteria and Evaluation for Ontology Modularization Technique. >> [2] d'Aquin, M., Doran, P., Motta, E., Tamma, V., (2007)Towards a >> Parametric >> Ontology Modularization Framework Based on Graph Transformation. >> Workshop: >> International Workshop on Modular Ontologies, K-CAP 2007. >> [3] >> http://www.neon-project.org/web-content/images/Publications/neon_2008_d114.pdf >> [4] http://www.ontologydynamics.org/od/index.php/ores2010/ >> >> >> >> >> The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), >> an exempt >> charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC >> 038302). >> >> > > > > -- > Meet us at the Semantic Technology Conference this year in San > Francisco. > http://www.lotico.com/stc2010
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