Tuesday, February 21, 2006
The Second School of Semantic Science
ontologyMapping Glass Bead Games
On the limits of the OWL standard à [184]
Reading material [1]
Reading material [2]
Reading material [3]
Summary of the discussion up to this point à [186]
Development of ontology mediation over wiki pages
Hi Alan,
at
http://karma.med.harvard.edu/wiki/Debugging_the_bug
"To identify inconsistencies in the iJR904 E coli compounds, we first assumed functional and inverse functional restrictions"
Alan, would you speak about this, to clarify what
1) is meant by inconsistencies
2) what are functional and inverse functional restrictions
3) why would functional and inverse functional restrictions provide information regarding inconsistencies?
what would help (folks like me) is more pure definitions.
http://karma.med.harvard.edu/wiki/Debugging_the_bug/iJR904#casNumber
for example says that a wiki page for casNumber is not available. A page can be easily created at that point to give a brief definition of what casNumber is.
http://karma.med.harvard.edu/wiki/CasNumber is blank (as of 2/22/06)
I did a search on casNumber at www.biopax.org/wiki
And found also that this term is not yet a wiki page.
I assume that there is some conservation law involving molecular weight or something similar that one speaks about regarding the casNumber?
A community of practice’s wiki is instructive if more hints were given about what is likely common professional knowledge, referenced by terms that are not informative to someone looking from other disciplines.
I also assume that harvesting programs can be designed that provide interdisciplinary indexing into wikis if there was a standardization of pages suggesting strongly that each page make maximum attempt to have definitions over all terms and phrases... linked to definitional pages.
I am looking at BioPAX and related work as a means to help on standardizing e-business information models; since the biologist knows better than the businessperson the issues related to knowledge representation.
Thank you in advance for your response.
Paul S Prueitt
ps. the clarity on definition of commonly used terms and phrases within a community of practice could be a first step in developing ontology mediated wiki knowledge bases.