Hi Nina,

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Nina Jeliazkova <nina at acad.bg> wrote:
> I am tempted to propose RDF as a standard exchange format for OpenTox
> resources. Instead of custom XML schemas and custom name spaces, we can make
> use of existing RDF name spaces. This should also work nice with ontologies
> and integrating data from different sources.

I can strongly second this suggestion, and help/advise here in these
matters if you like. Last week I have become official Invited Expert
to the W3 Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group, and
working on RDF in relation to cheminformatics (in the CDK and
Bioclipse, mostly).

> From technical point of view, RDF/XML can be considered just a XML with
> specific name spaces.  It seems there are plenty of libraries for different
> languages and frameworks.

RDF/XML is only one serialization; others exist too, like N3, but even JSON.

> Last but not least RDF offers a way to denote multiple URI point to the same
> object ;)

I assume your refer to owl:sameAs ?

Egon

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