[MOBY-l] Fwd: Problems searching with semantic moby dot org

[Frank Gibbons]

Mark,

For some reason, the entire body of my recent posting was stripped. I also 
had a message telling me that the message would be subject to moderator 
approval (perhaps because of the included HTML?). I'm re-sending in plain text.

-Frank

>Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 16:35:05 -0400
>To: moby-l at biomoby.org
>From: Frank Gibbons <fgibbons at hms.harvard.edu>
>Subject: Problems searching with semantic moby dot org
>
>Hi,
>
>I've tried using semanticmoby.org to see what's out there in the S-MOBY 
>world. I know it just went up a few weeks ago, so it's bound to have some 
>hiccups. Several things struck me immediately, and I thought you'd like to 
>hear about them:
>
>1. How do I compose a query? There is a link to 'Help on Searching', but 
>it seems curiously generic ('HELLO means the same thing as hello as does 
>HeLlo"), not at all specific to the semantic task at hand. Also, it 
>appears that the page works by allowing the user to specify a provider, 
>subject and object of interest, but isn't the real thing supposed to query 
>using an RDF graph of subject-predicate-object? How far off is that?
>
>2. A couple of examples would help a lot, both for the current 
>(provider-subject-object) incarnation, and especially when the full RDF 
>capabilities are added. I believe this is true even if the services that 
>are 'discovered' don't do much that's practical yet.
>
>3. When I click the 'search' button, this message appears:
>
>
>
>Not Found
>
>
>
>The requested URL /keyword-search was not found on this server.
>
>----------
>Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) DAV/2 Resin/3.0.8 Server at semanticmoby.org Port 80
>
>Just my 2 cents.
>
>-Frank
>
>PhD, Computational Biologist,
>Harvard Medical School BCMP/SGM-322, 250 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA.
>Tel: 617-432-3555       Fax: 
>617-432-3557       http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons

PhD, Computational Biologist,
Harvard Medical School BCMP/SGM-322, 250 Longwood Ave, Boston MA 02115, USA.
Tel: 617-432-3555       Fax: 
617-432-3557       http://llama.med.harvard.edu/~fgibbons