Deadline Extension: Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of Applied Ontology

2009-05-25 Thread Mathieu D'Aquin
Deadline extended to 15th June Beautiful Ontologies, a special issue of Applied Ontology Calling experts on ontology modeling, representation and design, as well as ontology users, to contribute to a special issue of Applied Ontology on `Beautiful Ontologies'. Guest editors: Mathieu

Re: How to query for Country Specific Data

2009-05-25 Thread Toby A Inkster
On 24 May 2009, at 08:19, richard.hanc...@3kbo.com wrote: Depending on what you are looking for are some datasets better starting points than others? E.g. for finding the towns and cities is geonames (http://sws.geonames.org/) ,CIA Factbook or some other dataset, a better starting point?

numeric web search (Was: URLs instead of URNs)

2009-05-25 Thread Wolfgang Orthuber
David, we have independently drawn the same conclusions, this seems to be most efficient. Numeric similarity search needs an efficient approach. Figure 2 in http://www.orthuber.com/wp1.pdf shows that there are only a few steps that linked data are the first which allow numeric web search with

AW: software to generate lod clouds

2009-05-25 Thread Neubert Joachim
Knud, Kingsley: Thank you for the hints. Since OmniGraffle is restricted to the Mac environment, I used yED Graph Editor (http://www.yworks.com) which works with graphml. So I can use a template to produce the nodes and edges, and the (organic, hierarchical etc.) layout tools of yED to build a

Re: Contd: How to query for Country Specific Data

2009-05-25 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Kingsley. I'm not sure why you have raised all this again. I simply suggested to Richard another way of doing what he wanted. You then asked me whether what you had proposed failed to resolve his problem. I can't say whether it does, but perhaps Richard can better answer that. But it would

Re: DBpedia user, who are you?

2009-05-25 Thread blumauer
Hi Georgi, hi all, first of all, thanks to the DBpedia team - you make a great job! My name is Andreas Blumauer, and we (punkt. netServices [1]) have been working on a SKOS based thesaurus management system called PoolParty [2] in the last two years. Some additional facts about the system

Re: Contd: How to query for Country Specific Data

2009-05-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
Hugh Glaser wrote: Thanks Kingsley. I'm not sure why you have raised all this again. I simply suggested to Richard another way of doing what he wanted. I don't have an issue with you point Richard to alternatives. I do have issues with our offering being misrepresented (albeit

Re: Contd: How to query for Country Specific Data

2009-05-25 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Kingsley, I think that's enough. The only reason I said anything was because you asked me to comment - I did. If in answering I misrepresented your offering, then I apologise - although I happen to think that I understand it quite well. We clearly need to agree to differ on a number of

Re: Guerilla science: what can we do in 10 days?

2009-05-25 Thread joel sachs
Toby, This is awesome. We can combine this data (conservation status of 46,600 species) with the Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas [1] to, for example, query for the vulnerable species in each park. PREFIX purl: http://purl.org/NET/biol/ns# PREFIX life:

Re: URI lifecycle (Was: Owning URIs)

2009-05-25 Thread David Booth
Hi Pat, On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 12:47 -0500, Pat Hayes wrote: On May 20, 2009, at 12:01 AM, David Booth wrote: Hi Hugh, Re: The URI Lifecycle in Semantic Web Architecture: http://dbooth.org/2009/lifecycle/ [ . . . ] It is clear that semantic drift is a natural part of natural

Re: URI lifecycle (Was: Owning URIs)

2009-05-25 Thread David Booth
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 20:49 +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: On 22/5/09 19:47, Pat Hayes wrote: David Booth wrote: Yes, that's a great topic for discussion. It is clear that semantic drift is a natural part of natural language: a word that meant one thing years ago may mean something quite

Re: numeric web search (Was: URLs instead of URNs)

2009-05-25 Thread David Booth
Wolfgang, It sounds like your work may be somewhat related to what the Okkam project is doing: http://www.okkam.org/ David Booth On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 11:59 +0100, Wolfgang Orthuber wrote: David, we have independently drawn the same conclusions, this seems to be most efficient. Numeric

Re: URI lifecycle (Was: Owning URIs)

2009-05-25 Thread David Booth
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 12:59 -0400, Kingsley Idehen wrote: David Booth wrote: Hi John, Re: The URI Lifecycle in Semantic Web Architecture: http://dbooth.org/2009/lifecycle/ [ . . . ] In simple terms, the URI owner is the owner of the domain from which the URI is allocated, or the

Re: URI lifecycle (Was: Owning URIs)

2009-05-25 Thread Dan Brickley
On 25/5/09 17:45, David Booth wrote: On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 20:49 +0200, Dan Brickley wrote: On 22/5/09 19:47, Pat Hayes wrote: David Booth wrote: Yes, that's a great topic for discussion. It is clear that semantic drift is a natural part of natural language: a word that meant one thing years

Adding Country Specific Data

2009-05-25 Thread richard . hancock
Thanks Kingsley, Hugh and Toby, for answering my original questions re how to query for country specific data. As much as I like Dbpedia I wasn't sure that the URIs that I had found were the right starting point for focusing on the towns of New Zealand. Using Kingsley's site

Re: Guerilla science: what can we do in 10 days?

2009-05-25 Thread Toby A Inkster
On 25 May 2009, at 14:37, joel sachs wrote: 1. Have you considered putting the species name inside the URLs for the pages? This would simplify human interaction with the data; would there be a downside? While that seems like a useful idea, I wanted to use the same identifiers as IUCN do.

Re: Adding Country Specific Data

2009-05-25 Thread Kingsley Idehen
richard.hanc...@3kbo.com wrote: Thanks Kingsley, Hugh and Toby, for answering my original questions re how to query for country specific data. As much as I like Dbpedia I wasn't sure that the URIs that I had found were the right starting point for focusing on the towns of New Zealand. Using