The Life Sciences Semantic Web is full of creeps!
The Life Sciences Semantic Web is full of creeps!
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DOI：
10.1093/bib/bbl025
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
影响因子：
9.5
通讯作者：
Wilkinson, Mark D.
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作者：
Good, Benjamin M.;Wilkinson, Mark D.
生命科学语义网（SWLS）一旦实现，将极大地提高我们利用庞大且不断增长的网络可访问资源进行生物信息学分析的能力。通过广泛接受和应用生物信息的命名、表示、描述和获取标准，将实现这一能力。W3C领导的语义Web计划已经建立了实现统一的全球SWLS所需的大部分（如果不是全部的话）标准和技术。不幸的是，迄今为止，生物信息学界似乎不愿意完全采用它们。相反，我们看到的是可以被描述为“语义蠕变”的情况--应该为社区扮演领导角色的团体胆怯、零碎和临时地采用部分标准。我们认为，在这一点上，创建SWLS的主要障碍可能是社会的，而不是技术的性质，并认为，像原来的网络，建立SWLS将主要取决于其消费者的意愿和参与。
The Semantic Web for the Life Sciences (SWLS), when realized, will dramatically improve our ability to conduct bioinformatics analyses using the vast and growing stores of web-accessible resources. This ability will be achieved through the widespread acceptance and application of standards for naming, representing, describing and accessing biological information. The W3C-led Semantic Web initiative has established most, if not all, of the standards and technologies needed to achieve a unified, global SWLS. Unfortunately, the bioinformatics community has, thus far, appeared reluctant to fully adopt them. Rather, we are seeing what could be described as 'semantic creep'-timid, piecemeal and ad hoc adoption of parts of standards by groups that should be stridently taking a leadership role for the community. We suggest that, at this point, the primary hindrances to the creation of the SWLS may be social rather than technological in nature, and that, like the original Web, the establishment of the SWLS will depend primarily on the will and participation of its consumers.