Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls en-EU hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 HCLS F2F http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/10/27/hcls_f2f 2009-10-27T17:41:54Z Susie Stephens group logistics http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/Meetings/2009-11-02_F2F The next HCLS F2F meeting is being held on November 2-3, so it's approaching rapidly. We have some excellent talks arranged. Don Doherty (Brainstage) will be giving an introduction to neuroscience, and presenting on informatics requirements. Mark Musen (Stanford) will be providing an overview of BioPortal. Peter Hendler (Kaiser Permanante) will be talking about the use of SNOMED and DL in EHRs. Helena Deus (U Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) will speak on propagating permissions in biomedicine. We will also have Axel Polleres (DERI) presenting on the SPARQL WG, Yolanda Gil on the Provenance XG, and Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C) on OWL2 WG, RDF2RDB WG and RIF WG. Scott Marshall (Leiden) will be giving the overview of the HCLS IG. There will also be task breakout sessions, discussions on strategic direction, outreach, collaboration, and funding. http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/Meetings/2009-11-02_F2F

The next HCLS F2F meeting is being held on November 2-3, so it's approaching rapidly. We have some excellent talks arranged. Don Doherty (Brainstage) will be giving an introduction to neuroscience, and presenting on informatics requirements. Mark Musen (Stanford) will be providing an overview of BioPortal. Peter Hendler (Kaiser Permanante) will be talking about the use of SNOMED and DL in EHRs. Helena Deus (U Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) will speak on propagating permissions in biomedicine. We will also have Axel Polleres (DERI) presenting on the SPARQL WG, Yolanda Gil on the Provenance XG, and Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C) on OWL2 WG, RDF2RDB WG and RIF WG. Scott Marshall (Leiden) will be giving the overview of the HCLS IG. There will also be task breakout sessions, discussions on strategic direction, outreach, collaboration, and funding. ]]> Publication of Three Scientific Discourse Notes http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/10/23/publication_of_three_scientific_discours 2009-10-23T16:24:37Z Eric Prud'hommeaux group logistics The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group is pleased to announce the publishing of three Interest Group notes by the Scientific Discourse Task Force: Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN) Ontology SIOC, SIOC Types and Health Care and Life Sciences SWAN/SIOC: Alignment Between the SWAN and SIOC Ontologies These notes describe how one can use the Semantic Web to express and integrate scientific data from different domains and from heterogeneous services. It is hoped that they will inspire further contributions to the ongoing work of the Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and its Scientific Discourse Task Force, as well as inspire those in other domains to exploit the Semantic Web. On a related topic, the Interest Group holds a Workshop on Scientific Discourse next monday ISWC 2009 The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group is pleased to announce the publishing of three Interest Group notes by the Scientific Discourse Task Force:

These notes describe how one can use the Semantic Web to express and integrate scientific data from different domains and from heterogeneous services. It is hoped that they will inspire further contributions to the ongoing work of the Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group and its Scientific Discourse Task Force, as well as inspire those in other domains to exploit the Semantic Web. On a related topic, the Interest Group holds a Workshop on Scientific Discourse next monday ISWC 2009

]]> Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/09/09/workshop_on_semantic_web_applications_in 2009-09-09T15:40:20Z Susie Stephens group logistics The W3C HCLS Interest Group has now finalized the agenda for the Workshop on Scientific Discourse at ISWC 2009. David Shotton (University of Oxford) has kindly agreed to give a keynote presentation on Enabling Semantic Publication and Integration of Scientific Information. There will be a panel on Scientific Communication in 2010 with panelists including Olivier Bodenreider (NLM), Matt Day (Nature), Anita de Waard (Elsevier), Maryann Martonne (UCSD), and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EBI). The workshop has accepted nine peer reviewed papers covering topics such as the analysis of biomedical texts, ontologies for scientific discourse representation, and tools for sharing data, workflows and ontologies. W3C HCLS Interest Group has now finalized the agenda for the Workshop on Scientific Discourse at ISWC 2009. David Shotton (University of Oxford) has kindly agreed to give a keynote presentation on Enabling Semantic Publication and Integration of Scientific Information. There will be a panel on Scientific Communication in 2010 with panelists including Olivier Bodenreider (NLM), Matt Day (Nature), Anita de Waard (Elsevier), Maryann Martonne (UCSD), and Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EBI). The workshop has accepted nine peer reviewed papers covering topics such as the analysis of biomedical texts, ontologies for scientific discourse representation, and tools for sharing data, workflows and ontologies.]]> Triplification Challenge 2009 Winner http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/09/08/triplification_challenge_2009_winner_1 2009-09-08T13:47:23Z Susie Stephens group logistics I'd like to congratulate the Linking Open Drug Data task within W3C's Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group for winning the Triplification Challenge this year. Anja Jentzsch, Jun Zhao, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Matthias Samwald and Bo Andersson did a tremendous amount of work to interlink life sciences data relating to traditional Chinese medicine, clinical trials, genes, diseases, drugs, and adverse drug reactions. In total, the data consisted of more than 8.4 million RDF triples and almost 390,000 links to external data sources. Congratulations again to everyone involved in the work! Linking Open Drug Data task within W3C's Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group for winning the Triplification Challenge this year. Anja Jentzsch, Jun Zhao, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Matthias Samwald and Bo Andersson did a tremendous amount of work to interlink life sciences data relating to traditional Chinese medicine, clinical trials, genes, diseases, drugs, and adverse drug reactions. In total, the data consisted of more than 8.4 million RDF triples and almost 390,000 links to external data sources. Congratulations again to everyone involved in the work! ]]> ISWC Workshop on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls/2009/07/22/iswc_workshop_on_semantic_web_applicatio_1 2009-07-22T18:39:51Z Susie Stephens group logistics http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC2009/Workshop The Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has had a workshop accepted at ISWC 2009 on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse. Scientific research is becoming both increasingly interdisciplinary, and dependent for dissemination on the Web. Yet the form of the discourse has remained for the most part, a digital analog of the paper research article. This situation persists despite the emergence of Web 2.0 paradigms (blogs, wikis, online communities), application of Semantic Web technologies to problems in biomedicine, and the introduction of virtual research environments in certain areas. We will bring together experts in semantic technology, scientific informatics, virtual research environments, Web communities and scientific publishing to contribute to the development of new thinking on how scientific research can be communicated, characterized, annotated, searched and shared on the Web. Details about the workshop including logistics, the deadline for paper submissions, and program committee members are available on the Web site for the workshop. http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ISWC2009/Workshop

The Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has had a workshop accepted at ISWC 2009 on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse.

Scientific research is becoming both increasingly interdisciplinary, and dependent for dissemination on the Web. Yet the form of the discourse has remained for the most part, a digital analog of the paper research article. This situation persists despite the emergence of Web 2.0 paradigms (blogs, wikis, online communities), application of Semantic Web technologies to problems in biomedicine, and the introduction of virtual research environments in certain areas. We will bring together experts in semantic technology, scientific informatics, virtual research environments, Web communities and scientific publishing to contribute to the development of new thinking on how scientific research can be communicated, characterized, annotated, searched and shared on the Web.

Details about the workshop including logistics, the deadline for paper submissions, and program committee members are available on the Web site for the workshop.]]>