[Biocorba-l] Annotations

[Martin Senger]

> 
> > last couple of weeks, I've been looking at RDF Schema and DAML as mechanisms
> > which could be used to define annotation schemas.  This ought to retrofit
> > quite cleanly on top of the current Annotatable/Annotation API.
> 
> Martin could you comment this. How the constrained vocabulary
> server/Candy etc. fit on this?
>
   I do not know what is meant by "annotation schemas" - so I do not know
if "Candy" can help. The "Candy" is a Java (and optionally CORBA)
implementation of an official OMG module (submitted by EBI and NetGenics
as a part, but very separate part, of Genomic maps spec) for controlled
vocabularies. It was meant to be simple - if you need more there is an OMG
Lexicon service. The Candy is avalable at http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/candy.

   Martin

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