Semantics integration

[cboettig]

Truly automatic data integration needs some level of formal semantics. Should start thinking about how semantics would fit into the reml workflow, even though most are still in their infancy.

An ideal system would allow authors to contribute to existing ontologies, or at least push to a 'working' or 'draft' ontology that could later be formalized / mapped to a more central effort like OBOE

Not sure if we yet have any R-based tools for semantic reasoning, etc. (Though we do have SPARQL). Ultimately this might require a separate repository to tackle implementation and reasoning of semantic terms. (Hopefully developed by some actual domain experts in the R community).

[cboettig]

This issue is really several issues, most of which are being addressed elsewhere (so I am closing this issue as redundant)

Generating semantics (write)

This is being addressed conceptually in #5 and in implementation in #9. We have to decide in what format and what location the semantic data will appear (e.g. via XML Schema, RDF, RDFa? as a separate annotation file or inline?)

Leveraging semantics (read)

This is posed as the central challenge of issue #8. Before we can address this it would be nice to have some sense of how the semantic information is coming in (e.g. the write issues above), though ideally we are not dependent on those details. Certainly a problem for a much later stage in the game.

[cboettig]

Wow, 2013.

Now all of EML can be semantic via emld parsing. emld still needs to coerce semantic annotations into native RDF, see ropensci/emld#2 , but will be dealt with over there.