Use case

Medical SPARQL: Using SPARQL to answer medical questions

Objective

what are we trying to achieve?

Projected timeframe

November 2011 - November 2012.

Stakeholders

Developers of biomedical informatics applications that want to include biomedical information retrieval functionality.
Medical practitioners and biomedical researchers that need answers to specific kinds of questions (rather than free-text information retrieval).

Value Proposition

Does the use case capture current behavior, improved or novel functionality?

What is the significance or impact of having such functionality?

Methods and components

What steps would be taken to achieve the task?

Compare and contrast with other, related work.

What components are required to successfully complete the task?

Do any of the components already exist? If so, indicate their strengths, weaknesses and availability (free, license, etc)

Deliverables

Software: collection of SPARQL queries
Software: web application for managing SPARQL query templates and executing SPARQL queries
Written: Journal article

Partners

Matthias Samwald (Medical University of Vienna & University of Technology Vienna)
Helena Deus? (DERI Galway)
Ontotext?
Khresmoi consortium
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Success Criteria

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