On 1 November 2010 19:29, Christoph Helma <helma at in-silico.ch> wrote:

> Excerpts from Om's message of Fri Oct 29 22:11:50 +0200 2010:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I found a paper (http://www.jstatsoft.org/v25/i05/supp/2), which might
> me
> > interesting for parsing RDF in R. The package "tm" can be used for
> parsing
> > RSS feed RDF from Gmane.
> >
> > Excerpt from paper
> > --------------------------------------
> > One key format is RDF (Manola and Miller 2004) where efforts to handle
> this
> > format have already been made in R (R Development Core Team 2007) with
> the
> > Bioconductor project (Gentleman et al. 2004, 2005). This development off
> ers
> > great  exibility in document exchange. But with the growing popularity of
> > XML based formats (e.g., RDF/XML as a common representation for RDF)
> tools
> > need to be able to handle XML documents and metadata.
> > ---------------------------------------
>
> From a quick glance I would say it does not help with parsing OWL-DL. A
> quick question for those who are familiar with RDF usage in Bio- and
> Chemoinformatics: I have the impression that most datasets and
> applications are using plain RDF, not OWL-DL - is this correct?
>

OWL-DL is still valid RDF , so if there is RDF parser for R it does help,
there will be no problem to use it to parse OWL-DL.

Nina


>
> Best regards,
> Christoph
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