[Hplusroadmap] [OWW-Discuss] Tapping into open source / open access and doingslightly more

[Bryan Bishop]

On Friday 16 May 2008, Antoon Goderis <goderisa at cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
> A good example of the current state of the art in terms of a Semantic
> Web language based representation that captures functionality (in
> this case based on the relationship between input and output) can be
> found in http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~hulld/papers/HZBH+06.pdf

Yeah, that looks like input/output specs. That's what we've been doing 
on this mailing list, as part of SKDB, which stands for societal 
engineering knowledge database. The information is put into metadata 
files, with specific input/output information for each of the programs 
and services that are provided, and then this metadata (in YAML, which 
is a human readable way to serialize data objects, kind of like RDF and 
a bit like XML except not) can be used as a way to specify projects and 
plug things together.

http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/SKDB
http://heybryan.org/exp.html for a dense description

> It is currently being operationalized by the EBI in BioCatalogue, a
> project developing a registry for services.

Hm. Maybe that can be integrated into the system I describe above. I 
need to write a better introduction to this overall project, but in 
general things are running along smoothly. I call it 'physically 
grounding the semantic web' -- kind of like the ai grounding problem, 
except I've realized that it's not just artificial intelligence, it's 
everything on the web in general. ;-)

And sometimes people, it seems.

- Bryan
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