[seek-kr] Re: next steps for KR/SMS

Thu Jul 17 08:37:40 PDT 2003

Hey Bertram -

I'm not going on a honeymoon, and we're having a do-it-yourself wedding
party, so today and tomorrow are super busy organizing stuff, but I will be
around and working next week.

Do you have Protege installed?  If so, do File/Save in Format...  to save an
ontology in a different format.  I think it has an RDF-S option in the basic
installation.  I've attached what Protege gave me when I did that operation
on the measurements ontology.  There are also a couple of XML backend
plugins available (http://protege.stanford.edu/plugins.html).

Not sure what you're asking in question 2.  Basically, you'd first check
that the two quantities had the same underlying SI unit type and then use
the multiplier and offset to do the conversion.  Beyond that, I'm not sure
what you need to know for what you're trying to do.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Bertram Ludaescher [mailto:ludaesch at sdsc.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:30 PM
To: Rich Williams
Cc: Matt Jones; Deana Pennington; Mark Schildhauer;
seek-kr at ecoinformatics.org; Bertram Ludaescher; Bill Michener
Subject: RE: [seek-kr] Re: next steps for KR/SMS

Hi Rich:

Getting married huh? Congratulations!

Hey -- before you go into merry marry land (and on honey moon??), two
quick questions:

1. would you have a simple XML or RDF or whatever version of your
ontology lying around? Where? Thanks! (will do some Prolog hacks on it
if you don't mind)

2. cna you explain me with an example how I can do unit conversions
based on the EML unit dictionary?

Ideally can you send both things right now? I'm working on a short
report on my unit dictionary hack at the last SEEK dev meeting in SD.
And (1) and even more so (2) would be helpful.

cheers

Bertram

>>>>> "RW" == Rich Williams <rwilliams at nceas.ucsb.edu> writes:
RW>
RW> Hi Deana -
RW> The food web ontology project is composed of various sub-ontologies, all
of
RW> which are in the place Matt indicated.  They are combined in a project
RW> called EcologicalNetworks.  As a quick and dirty way of viewing the
ontology
RW> without having Protege, I put a set of html files that allow you to
browse
RW> the ontology in the html folder off WowKB.  I did the same for the
RW> Measurements ontology in a folder called MeasurementsHtml off the
RW> kr/ontologies folder.  In either case, load index.html into your browser
to
RW> view the concept hierarchy.
RW>
RW> This display assumes some familiarity with the Protege knowledge model.
I
RW> think the best place to learn about it is
RW>
http://protege.stanford.edu/publications/ontology_development/ontology101.ht
RW> ml, or perhaps some of the other Protege documentation at
RW> http://protege.stanford.edu/useit.html.
RW>
RW> Hope this is useful.  More to come soon, I'm just very buried right now
with
RW> getting ready to get married on Saturday, so I might be kinda slow...
RW>
RW> Rich
RW>
RW> -----Original Message-----
RW> From: seek-kr-admin at ecoinformatics.org
RW> [mailto:seek-kr-admin at ecoinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Matt Jones
RW> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:44 PM
RW> To: Deana Pennington
RW> Cc: Mark Schildhauer; seek-kr at ecoinformatics.org; Rich Williams; Bertram
RW> Ludaescher; Bill Michener
RW> Subject: Re: [seek-kr] Re: next steps for KR/SMS
RW>
RW>
RW> Deana,
RW>
RW> I think Rich's food web ontology is actually from a different non-SEEK
RW> project called "Webs on the Web (WOW)".  You can see it by checking out
RW> another module of CVS (wow) in addition to the seek module you already
RW> have.  If you only want the ontology from WOW, you can just check out
RW> "wow/WowKB".
RW>
RW> You need Protege to view both this and the Measurements ontology that
RW> Rich put in place.  Hopefully he can generate some images soon and add
RW> those to cvs for people that want a quick glance but don't have Protege.
RW>
RW> Matt
RW>
RW> Deana Pennington wrote:
>> I saw the docs Rich put in CVS on measurement ontologies and semantics
>> (these were helpful to me).  I didn't see anything on food webs.  Do I
>> have to install Protege to be able to look at it?
RW> --
RW> -------------------------------------------------------------------
RW> Matt Jones                                     jones at nceas.ucsb.edu
RW> http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/    Fax: 425-920-2439    Ph: 907-789-0496
RW> National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
RW> University of California Santa Barbara
RW> Interested in ecological informatics? http://www.ecoinformatics.org
RW> -------------------------------------------------------------------
RW>
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