- From: Marco Neumann <marco.neumann@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:08:01 -0500
- To: "semantic-web@w3.org" <semantic-web@w3.org>
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/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 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 > -- Meet us at the Semantic Technology Conference this year in San Francisco. http://www.lotico.com/stc2010
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