Allyson’s Neighbors

OBO Foundry principles

2009-06-04T18:01:32Z

Following blog posts from Duncan and Allyson, and in preparation for the 2nd OBO Foundry workshop, here is my take on the OBO Foundry principles. The list provided by the OBO Foundry is formatted similarly to the one on their website, bold blue w...

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Copyright

2009-02-13T16:16:23Z

The disclaimer I used for the presentation notes has been written by Allyson Lister at themindwobbles.wordpress.com. Except where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Canada License.

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Increasingly Accurate Representation of Biochemistry

2009-05-22T05:39:04Z

Michel Dumontier, assistant Professor of Bioinformatics at Carleton University, was visiting Vancouver just before the Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium and kindly offered to present his work during our third Vancouver Semantic Web Meetup....

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Exposing the Entity Web - Evri meetup

2009-05-17T04:40:52Z

Deep Dhillon, CTO of Evri, was in Vancouver yesterday to talk at the Vancouver Semantic Web group second meetup. Evri aims at exposing entities on the web, entities being anything that can be expressed using natural language. They create their kn...

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Vancouver Semantic Web meetup

2009-04-08T23:42:46Z

The first Vancouver Semantic Web group has been launched today. It is a joint adventure with Mark, and we hope you will join us (living close to Vancouver may help ;) ) Update [April 27th 2009]: Jim Pick joined us on the organizers team. ...

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Merci :)

2009-04-08T03:18:24Z

I just received the most beautiful orchid ever. Thanks - you could not have chosen better, I *love* it. And the Cat already loves it too :)

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MIREOT

2009-04-03T23:16:40Z

The Minimum Information to Reference an External Ontology Term "While the Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a mechanism to import ontologies, this mechanism is not always suitable. [...] In this paper we propose a set of guidelines for import...

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The OWL of Biomedical Investigations

2009-03-28T05:14:47Z

"The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI), written in OWL DL, brings together a large consortium seeking to provide a cross-domain, shared framework for representing investigations in the biological and biomedical sciences. In this paper w...

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FreeBase

2009-02-28T18:13:42Z

Last week-end, I had the chance to attend a FreeBase meeting here in Vancouver. The event took place at the Irish Heather Gastropub, which was quiet on a Sunday noon. Nice food, and great people :) To be honest I didn't know much about FreeBase. ...

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Sesame

2009-02-15T18:46:34Z

I'm currently trying to find out more about RDF triplestores, querying, browsing... My experience in this area is pretty basic, few SPARQL queries againt the Neurocommons Virtuoso endpoint, and some poking around to find out more about other syst...

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