Announcement of First Set of OBO Foundry Ontologies

First OBO foundry set of ontologies: http://www.bioontology.org/first-set-obo-foundry-ontologies.

Data.gov.uk and visualisation

Very nice demo on how to use data.gov.uk: Linked Data visualisation launched at Prime Minister’s Conference.

Linked Data Visualisation Launched at Prime Minister’s Conference

BioHackaton 2010

Pity I couldn’t attend:

The 3rd DBCLS BioHackathon for interpreting biological knowledge with Semantic Web technologies will be held during 2010/2/ 8-12 in Japan.

http://hackathon3.dbcls.jp/

Calling International Rescue: knowledge lost in literature and data landslide!

Very interesting article by Attwood et al, relevant to Ontogenesis Knowledge Blog.

“It is quite depressive to
think that we are spending millions in grants for people to perform
experiments, produce new knowledge, hide this knowledge in a
often badly written text and then spend some more millions trying
to second guess what the authors really did and found”

OWL as RDF validator

Very nice explanation on the Pellet Integrity Constraint Validator. Pellet ICV allows to use OWL to validate RDF data with CWA and weak UNA.

Why use OWL?

A very succint and nice answer: http://www.xfront.com/why-use-owl.html

Why linked data for data.gov.uk?

Very nice post on why RDF is a good idea for the UK’s open data initiative, and, by extension, for the whole web: http://www.jenitennison.com/blog/node/140.

KnowledgeBlog: bloging a book about ontologies

I’m participating on an experiment about using blogs to create a book about bio-ontologies. Duncan Hull has a more in depths explanation.

DEXA 2010 – Bilbo

DEXA 2010 (http://www.dexa.org/) will take place in Bilbo, my home city.