COMMUNICATION: Enhanced: Science and the Semantic Web (if it doesn't work go to: http://www.mindswap.org/Science/ and click on "Full Text of Article". "Current Web technology is clearly insufficient for the needs of interdisciplinary science and comes up short when it comes to supporting the needs of the collaborative and interdisciplinary "e-Science." Fortunately, new Web technologies are emerging with the potential to revolutionize the ability of scientists to do collaborative work...The Center for Bioinformatics of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI), as part of the Metathesaurus [HN8] project (3), is turning a large vocabulary of cancer research terms into a machine-readable "ontology" [HN9]--essentially an expanded thesaurus that delineates precise relationships between the vocabulary items and that is available in the RDF-based Web Ontology Language, OWL [HN10] (4)."
Another article written by Professor Hendler.
