The first portal website in Japan that aggregates various life science databases in RDF format* has been launched by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (President: Michinari Hamaguchi) and ...

Similarly to how XML became the well-known standard adapted by many software vendors for data exchange, Resource Description Framework (RDF) is going in the same direction for describing and ...

Making books accessible to as many people as possible is a core tenet of librarianship. And at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in Seattle earlier this spring, I learned that librarians ...

With the ongoing rapid increase in both volume and diversity of 'omic' data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and others), the development and adoption of data standards is of paramount ...