This is a really good idea Ilya, and would turn out to be really popular I think. would it take much to implement it?<br>Best, <br>john<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ilya Sytchev
</b> <<a href="mailto:ilyas@mit.edu">ilyas@mit.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Here's a short summary:
<br><br>"One's doctoral advisor is one's academic parent. This lets us define an<br>academic genealogy of researchers, to describe the academic ancestors<br>and descendents of a particular set of researchers."
<br><br>See the AI Genealogy Project<br>(<a href="http://aigp.csres.utexas.edu/~aigp/?s=mission">http://aigp.csres.utexas.edu/~aigp/?s=mission</a>) for more details.<br><br>Another option would be to make use of the Semantic Web extension. Here
<br>are some examples:<br><a href="http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/People">http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/People</a><br><a href="http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Valentina_Tamma">http://wiki.ontoworld.org/wiki/Valentina_Tamma
</a><br><br>I think it may be useful to do something like this for OWW.<br><br>Ilya<br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenWetWare Discussion Mailing List<br><a href="mailto:discuss@openwetware.org">discuss@openwetware.org
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