HCLSIG/Meetings/2011-05-26 Conference Call

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Conference Details

  • Date of Call: Thursday May 26, 2011
  • Time of Call: 11:00am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), 16:00 British Summer Time (BST), 17:00 Central European Time (CET)
  • Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA)

[NOTE limited access for European direct dial lines below]

  • Dial-In #: +33.4.26.46.79.03 (France)
  • Dial-In #: +44.203.318.0479 (UK)
  • Participant Access Code: 4257 ("HCLS").
  • IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #HCLS (see W3C IRC page for details, or see Web IRC), Quick Start: Click on mibbit for instant IRC access.
  • Duration: ~1h
  • Convener: Eric Prud'hommeaux
  • Scribe: TBD

Agenda

  • HCLS IG charter/strategy discussion

Background

Hi all, as some of you reallize, the charter ends at the end of this
month. I've been polling around to see what alternative formulations
would give us the most resources and impact. In the process, I wrote
up some of our high-level use cases (elevator speeches) to help us
approach the relevant parties in pharmas, health services and
research: <http://www.w3.org/2011/05/HCLSIGUseCases>.

I'd like to discuss the landscape and potential strategies with the
community. I'd particularly like to invite those who have been active
or see themselves as being active in the next incarnation of the group.
We'll discuss the current, fairly conservative draft charter
<http://www.w3.org/2011/05/HCLSIGCharter-proposal>, as well as ways to
optimize both its message and the paths for dissemination. An example
of a messaging alternative would be to characterize the HCLS IG work
in terms of e.g. overarching translational medicine use cases:
"
 The W3C Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
 focuses on translational medicine use cases. The group will continue
 the aggregation of cutting edge and traditional scientific knowledge
 to meet use cases for researchers, care givers, patients and
 regulatory agencies. Due to the scope and diversity of expertise
 required to meet translational needs, the HCLS IG work is broken
 down into discrete task forces focused on particular data
 acquisition, modeling and integration requirements:

 Terminology - identifying and integrating identifiers for biological
 processes, gross anatomy and medical procedures to promote
 unification of domain data.

 LODD - curation of compounds, clinical trials and outcomes.

 BioRDF - modeling of biological processes and actors.

 Scientific Discourse - representation and tracking of the changing
 landscape of scientific knowledge and the driving theora and
 experiments.

 Translational Medicine - the oversight and high-level ontology that
 connects these disciplines together in order to meet immediate and
 long term needs from pharma, health care and other vested parties.
"
. Perhaps you all have some other ideas about how to tell a story
about our work which will serve to both draw people to our work and
our products and to help already interested parties find the task
forces which interest them. I of course want to draw an optimal
balance between doing work which motivates the participants and
focusing on tasks which will accelerate education and adoption by
important organizations.

I'm sure you are all aware of my preference for technical work, but I
feel that this outreach can make us all ultimately more effective. I
will use the Thursday 26 May HCLS slot (11:00 EDT) to reach out to the
current HCLS IG community, and whomever else you folks elect to bring
along. Of course, I'll reserve extra teleconference slots, but please
RSVP to me privately so I can make a guess at how many ports to
reserve. Also, please provide what feedback you can before the
conference. Anything we take care of before will make the meeting more
efficient.