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Providing a printed URI within the text of a publication, for example a taxonomic description, is a first step to modelling the statements we make in publications in a formal manner.  There are many other potentially more useful applications of a URI.  Including URIs in any form, however, within a publication, will ultimately make the document more interesting to computer-driven indexing of the document.  For example all the papers of with the URI referencing the "head of a hymenopteran" could be discovered if each publications about hymenopteran heads included the URI "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000397".  They could still use the label "head" alone, but a search could differentiate between "head" in the context of hymenopterans, and "head" of, for example, community organizations.
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Other sites provide similar services, most notably Bioportal.  The functionality within mx allows for a result integrated with other functionality to be returned, and for context specific to mx to be provided.

Revision as of 15:48, 6 September 2011

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Overview

The goal of this tool is to allow for explicit and unambiguous reference to ontological concepts within publications, other websites, or applications through the use of Universal Resource Identifiers (URIs). This sounds a little confusing, but the idea is straightforward. Labels used in publications are often not explicitly defined, and when read by others they may be misinterpreted (e.g through synonymy or homonomy). By including in your publication or website a link to a specific ontological concept, for example an anatomical structure, you can state your intention as to how a given word (label/term) is used in your particular paper- "by using the word 'head' I mean the thing that is defined in this manner in this ontology.". Nearly all taxonomic publications, for example, include a statement in their Materials and Methods that indicates where the descriptive terminology in the present work is defined. The analyzer is a powerful tool to aid in the production of these statements. ogy.


Usage

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Steps to publishing a "URI Table"

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At present we suggest the following steps be taken to produce a publishable table based on the analysis result:


Future work

Providing a printed URI within the text of a publication, for example a taxonomic description, is a first step to modelling the statements we make in publications in a formal manner. There are many other potentially more useful applications of a URI. Including URIs in any form, however, within a publication, will ultimately make the document more interesting to computer-driven indexing of the document. For example all the papers of with the URI referencing the "head of a hymenopteran" could be discovered if each publications about hymenopteran heads included the URI "http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HAO_0000397". They could still use the label "head" alone, but a search could differentiate between "head" in the context of hymenopterans, and "head" of, for example, community organizations.

Similar functionality

Other sites provide similar services, most notably Bioportal. The functionality within mx allows for a result integrated with other functionality to be returned, and for context specific to mx to be provided.

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