What is Neurocommons?
Excerpted from the project home page:
The NeuroCommons project seeks to make all scientific research materials - research articles, annotations, data, physical materials - as available and as useable as they can be. We do this by both fostering practices that render information in a form that promotes uniform access by computational agents - sometimes called "interoperability". We want knowledge sources to combine meaningfully, enabling semantically precise queries that span multiple information sources.
In a nutshell, a great project that makes practical use of Linked Data Web technology in the areas of computational biology and neuroscience.
What is Virtuoso and Neurocommons AMI for EC2?
A pre-installed and fully tuned edition of Virtuoso that includes a fully configured Neurocommons Knowledgebase (in RDF Linked Data form) on Amazon's EC2 Cloud platform.
Benefits?
Generally, it provides a no-hassles mechanism for instantiating personal-, organization-, or service-specific instances of a very powerful research knowledgebase within approximately 1.15 hours compared to a lengthy rebuild from RDF source data alternative that takes 14 hours or more, depending on machine hardware configuration and host operating system resources.
Features:
- Neurocommons public instance functionality replica (re. RDF and (X)HTML resource description representations & SPARQL endpoint)
- Local URI de-referencing (so no contention with public endpoint) as part of the RDF Linked Data Deployment
- Fully tuned Virtuoso instance for neurocommons knowledgebase.
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