Monthly Archives: April 2009

I am really excited abot the state of current chemical ontological development – there are now 3-4 groups including ours and I’ll expand later. But first I want to set the scene – looking at my ontological roots. The first … Continue reading →

I recently talked at some length with a young eScientist (whose blog I might highlight later). He’s a computer scientist, professionally interested in multidisciplinary work (music, environment, agents, etc.) and although very clued up on modern informatics didn’t have a … Continue reading →

The UK’s Sunday Observer newspaper yesterday had an article (Face facts: where Britannica ruled, Wikipedia has conquered) where John Naughton writes: Unwillingness to entertain the notion that Wikipedia might fly is a symptom of what the legal scholar James Boyle … Continue reading →

As I said earlier, Nico Adams would be blogging about his (impressive) chemical ontology ChemAxiom. All ontologies are hard. It is difficult to reach a consensus in any domain, and no single person’s or organization’s ontology is likely to carry … Continue reading →

Talis have been one of the great supporters of Open Data and also have an impressive triple store. They’ve helped us – especially Andrew Walkingshaw – to load largish sets of triples into a queriable base. They’ve also done fantastic … Continue reading →