This past Thursday I went to the Vancouver Semantic
Web Meetup Group meeting and saw the presentation
"Increasingly Accurate Representation of
Biochemistry" by Dr. Michel Dumontier. This is
the same Dumontier whose ontologies I have been
referencing in my articles. If you are interested
in getting a copy of his slides they are available
at Slideshare.

Dr. Dumontier discussed 'plausible structure-based
strategies for biochemcial identity.' As you can
see for yourself by looking at his slides there
are several very useful techniques for achieving
useful semantic web type information from data,
including hashing. He discusses the detection /
development of 'identifiers', amongst other things.
There are a number of things applicable to
semantic web work outside the biochemical domain
that are discussed that are of interest to the
inquiring mind, in 'representation' for example.

Dr. Dumontier is attending the Intelligent Systems
Collaborative AI/GI/CRV Conference 2009
( http://aigicrv.ok.ubc.ca/program/ )
Kelowna (BC Canada) which has a line-up of
interesting and topical semantic web presentations,
graphics, and others.

I include references to my use of Dr. Dumontier's
ontologies in my presentation at the
GeoWeb 2009 Conference, held in Vancouver.
( http://geowebconference.org/ )