Re: New major release of the NeOn Toolkit (v2.3)

FYI I have received an extensive reply from Enrico Motta yesterday
addressing my questions in a personal email. And I would like to thank
Enrico for his explanations.

I am looking forward to evaluate and make use of the results of the
NeOn project in March 2010.

Regards,
Marco


On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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