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Pipe dreams Arfon Smith
Semantic Web
Sharing data with machines
Sharing data with machines
How’s it going?
Standards
RDFResource Description Framework
OWLWeb Ontology Language
SPARQLSPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language
DAML+OILDARPA Agent Markup Language - Ontology Inference Layer
FOAFFriend of a Friend
The list goes on...
Semantic web: Hook together disparate resources
Biology?
Hard enough to get any data on the web, let alone another format
Complicated
SchemasResource descriptionsDeclarative logicCooridination numbersOntology definitionsDesign by committee
“it is miraculous enough to get them to work with well formatted HTML”
Ian Mulvany, Nature & Connotea
Huge overheads
Provide two resources
Another way?
microformats.org
Why Microformats?
Build on existing data
Simple to create
Simple to consume
hKit Text::Microformat MOFO
Firefox: Operator, TailsFirefox 3, IE 8, Safari, Opera
Microformats
hCalendar
hCard
adrgeo
hResume
hReview
hAtom
XFN
XOXO
citation
Microformats and Biology?
How do you integrate existing biological web resources?
hAction, a microformat for biology
Hook together existing biological web resources
Demo
Proof of concept
Pipes for biology
"Hey, that's pretty awesome."Chris Wanstrath, MOFO author
bioformats.org