Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Nina Jeliazkova <nina at acad.bg> wrote:
> > Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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).
> >>
> > Congratulations! It will be really good if you could help us with some
> > pointers to start with?
> 
> And perhaps collaborate on some things?

Definitely :) I hope OpenTox partners will join the email exchange soon.

> 
> BTW, the QSAR descriptor ontology is already in OWL.
> 
> > OpenTox would be interested in RDF for
> >
> > 1) Chemical compounds
> > 2) Properties of chemical compounds (any kind of; existing ontologies )
> > 3) Sets of chemical compounds
> > 4) Sets of chemical compounds + properties
> > 5) Models
> > 6) Algorithms (machine learning algorithms as a start)
> > 7) Model validation
> 
> Yes, what not :)
> 
> Check my blog for what I have been doing sofar:
> 
> http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/search?q=rdf
> 

OK, I am adding few top level pointers as well:

http://www.w3.org/RDF/
http://www.daml.org/ontologies/

> > I am pretty sure there is lot of work already done 1) and 2) (e.g. RDF
name
> > space for InChI exists).
> >
> >> > 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.
> >
> > Yes, I pointed to XML serialization, because it might be perceived as a
> > shorter step from current custom XML schemas. I didn't knew about JSON
> > serialization (many things to learn these days).
> 
> Yes, XSLT is rather suitable for that. I can also strongly recommend
> looking at RDFa, though I am not sure Plone has RDFa support yet.
> 

YAML serialization of RDF seems to exists as well.


Regards,
Nina

> >> > Last but not least RDF offers a way to denote multiple URI point to the
> >> > same object ;)
> >>
> >> I assume your refer to owl:sameAs ?
> >
> > Yes, we had the issue of non-unique URIs discussed several times.
> 
> Yes, OWL is very suited to make such statements.
> 

> Egon