To create new data sharing platforms on the web, both centralized
repository approach and distributed self-maintained web site approach
are valid. I hope there are serious players pushing both approaches at
the same time, which at the end will give the best of both to the
R&D community.
There are already successful data repositories like genebank. NFS is
pushing more of this sort. These repositories usually use relational
database (not ontology) for data presentation and storage. Some of them
may move to ontology-based, but it may depend on how ontology and
semantic technologies in general are accepted in the next few years.
Distributed self-publishing of experiment data on the web is a
relatively new concept, I think. I proposed this approach to w3c HCLS
group and has worked on it because, I think, semantic web technologies
(with ontology) has much higher chance to succeed here. The reason is
simple: the traditional approach using relational database is not as
effective as ontology approach for building web-scale distributed data
sharing/exchange platform. Open
Data distributed on the semantic web makes perfect sense to me. I
have been able to create a prototype system for this purpose with open
source tools. So, technology is not the big issue. Big challenge is
more on the side of behavior or culture.
AJ
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Deborah MacPherson wrote:
I think the biggest challenge is establishing a set of
coordinates to record precise times and locations of data
publishing/sharing and data reuse...a registry system for authors and
editors to place their own work, and interpretations of work by others,
in context before self publishing in places as enormous and broad as
the w3c.
Deborah MacPherson
On 1/13/07, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx
<
paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks
AJ, Ed and Deborah for the
exciting things
I perceive consensus in the community at large that usability is an
issue for ontologies as well as more fluid and dynamic reserch
validation processes. This thread offers us the opportunity of doing
both in near real time.
AJ - I have just added myself to your project page, and registered
feedback will follow
thanks
PDM
On 1/13/07, AJ Chen
<ajchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Open data movement is going
toward the direction you are probably
thinking about. Open data is less known than open access, but I think,
if the vision of open data can be realized, it will bring huge benefits
including real time data publishing/sharing and data reuse, which will
accelerate science and technology development for sure.
Moreover, I happen to believe semantic web technology and ontology are
just the right tools for making open data truly powerful because open
data wrapped in semantic objects can be discovered, shared and reused
immediately as they become available on the web. The task force on
scientific publishing that I'm coordinating under w3c HCLS group is
developing SPE
(Self-Publishing of Experiment) ontology for this purpose. In
supporting this task, i.e. promoting open data on semantic web, I've
created a easy-to-use semantic web
publishing tool for researchers to open their data. I'm also
building a search
engine for researchers to search the open data.
Obviously, opening raw data on the web by researchers themselves
requires a shift in the mind set, and it's definitely the biggest
challenge. Good ideas that can encourage this shift are still to come.
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