Dear All,
Unfortunately, I couldn't attend (being at the topically related AAAI
Semantic e-Science workshop), but it's good to read the summary and that
interest in bio & SW seems to be expanding (be it linear or
exponentially) -- and well ahead compared to the enterprise domain.
As for the demo, I have a few ideas of making the query interface more
user-friendly to non-SQL folks-- let's discuss over the next few days.
on query interfaces and knowing that biologists like figures, may I
suggest the notion of "Query by diagram" [1] (The material is a bit
outdated, but the basic idea still sound), or the similar idea of
ConQuer [2] (an abbreviation for conceptual queries), both are
database-focussed. For probably as recent as you can get and SW-centred:
the OntoVQL [3] (presented at the DL07 workshop) for a graphical query
language for OWL ontologies.
I can dish up some references to works that go about querying by (near)
natural language, in case people are interested.
[1] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=191976&coll=portal&dl=ACM and
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=153873&dl=ACM&coll=portal&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
[2] Bloesch, A.C., Halpin, T.A. (1996). ConQuer: a conceptual query
language. \emph{Proceedings of ER'96: 15th International Conference
onconceptual modeling}. Springer LNCS 1157. 1996. pp121-133. and
Bloesch, A.C., Halpin, T.A. (1997). Conceptual Queries using
ConQuer-II. \emph{Proceedings of ER'97: 16th International Conference
on Conceptual Modeling}. Springer LNCS 1331. 1997. pp113-126.
[3]
http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-250/paper_85.pdf
cheers,
marijke
C. Maria Keet
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cheers,
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Alan Ruttenberg
Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 12:22 AM
To: Eric Neumann
Cc: W3C HCLSIG hcls; M. Scott Marshall
Subject: Re: HCLS Demo at ISMB/ECCB
Good news! Congrats and thanks, Eric!
If you prepared any new materials (additional slides, etc) or have
any tips on how you approached the presentation, please send them on.
Best,
Alan
On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:27 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Just wanted to note this success for HCLS:
> At ISMB/ECCB[1] in Vienna, HCLS was well-represented. Eric Neumann
> presented the HCLS demo[2] 'live' to an overflowing room. Eric's
> presentation was very clear, well-paced, and had just the right
> level of
> detail to help ISMB/ECCB folks understand what HCLS is doing. In my
> estimation, the demo reached its target - as good as it gets. Not only
> that - a 'live' demo that actually worked well!
>
> Matthias Samwald presented a poster about HCLS work at the BioOnt
> Workshop. His poster was well-visited. We should hear more from
> Matthias
> about ISMB at the BioRDF Telcon next Monday.
>
> ISMB is an excellent place for HCLS people to meet like-minded people.
> Consider going next year (Toronto):
> http://www.iscb.org/events/event_data.php?660
>
> -scott
>
> [1]http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/
>
> --
> M. Scott Marshall
> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall
<http://staff.science.uva.nl/%7Emarshall>
> http://adaptivedisclosure.org
>
>
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