- From: Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:51:38 -0500
- To: "Mathieu D'Aquin" <m.daquin@open.ac.uk>
- Cc: "semantic-web@w3.org\"" <semantic-web@w3.org>
Thank You Mathieu On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Mathieu D'Aquin <m.daquin@open.ac.uk> wrote: > > 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 > > -- Meet us at the Semantic Technology Conference this year in San Francisco. http://www.lotico.com/stc2010
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