SWAT4LS2009 - Barend Mons: The meta-analysed semantic web, getting rid of ambiguity and redundancy

Introducing Concept Wiki – a semantic wiki and insulting his audience repeatedly.

Problems with getting the community to do annotation:

• everybody wants structured data, but nobody wants to do structured data entry. Not working.
• Everybody likes free text and cut and paste.

Now shows suggestion of ontology terms in authoring tools for introduction of structure in unstructured data.

Now talking about redundancy? Is it a problem? His point:

• no reviewer would accept the exact same paper twice let alone several times
• But same assertions are published over and over

Mentions deposit of ChemSpider Content into concept wiki.

• Oh dear – hopeless confusion between names, people, identifiers etc…..they are all “concepts” according to Barend Mons.
• The “essence of a nanopublication” is an annotated triple…i.e an assertion together with metadata about it (provenance, time etc…)
• Now points out that human language grammer is kind of similar to triples….subject predicate object…
• An assertion should only be accepted if it has value and advances human knowledge. The mind boggles….who decides what is interesting when….
• Triples vs “smart triples” apparently “smart triples” are curated/observed/hypothetical

Now shows some screenshots of use cases.