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Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group

This list of HCLSIG products serves as an index for the community and attests to the productivity and impact of the group. Presentations are on their own page.

Summary of Deliverables

We would like to acknowledge the health care and life sciences community for meeting the goals of the 2008 charter and the 2011 charter. Over the course of the last charters, the IG has developed a set of data and demonstrators enabling life science and health care practitioners to consume and reason over domain data. While earlier instantiations of the HCLS IG focused on representation and interchange of life sciences data (biology, genetics, chemistry), the most recent work has included data quality as well as clinical care and clinical research:

The deployment of RDF in HL7 FHIR
The development of Shape Expressions and work with the Data Shapes WG to support schema validation
FDA Therapeutic Areas ontologies
non-proliferation of ontologies and interoperability with other standards and conventions

More follow in the sections below.

Standards

The addition of RDF to the HL7 FHIR draft standard 3
The development of Shape Expressions to support schema validation and transfer of use cases to the W3C Data Shapes WG
The submission of standard ontologies for FDA Therapeutic Areas (Anticoagulants, ComplicatedUTI, Osteoporosis, RenalTransplantation, RheumatoidArthritis)
Cooperation with the DDI (Document, Discover and Interoperate) standard process to integrate clinical care with clinical trials.
The Health Care and Life Science (HCLS) Linked Data Guide was used in the Open PHACTS standards initiative.
Contribution of use cases to W3C's PROV standards

Outreach Activities

Shape Expressions and SHACL Tutorial ESWC 2016
Modeling and Validating HL7 FHIR Profiles Using ShEx AMIA 2016
Semantic Web Infrastructure for Health Informatics SWAT4LS 2015
Validata: An online tool for testing RDF data conformance SWAT4LS 2015
Optimizing Our Data and Time RDA 2015
Semantic Web Infrastructure for Health Informatics SMBM 2014
Semantic Web Infrastructure for Health Informatics WRIC 2014
FDA Therapeutic Areas in RDF C-SHALS 2014
Meeting Archive

HCLS Documents

Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile W3C Note 2014 and supporting tooling in 2015
Linked Data Glossary W3C Note 2013
Health Care and Life Science (HCLS) Linked Data Guide W3C Note 2013
Emerging practices for mapping and linking life sciences data using RDF — A case series, Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web, 2012, Preprint Draft
Translating standards into practice - One Semantic Web API for Gene Expression, Journal of Biomedical Informatics 2012 Mar 24, Preprint Draft
Semantically enabling pharmacogenomic data for the realization of personalized medicine, Pharmacogenomics (2012) 13(2):201-12
Ontology of Rhetorical Blocks (ORB) W3C Note 2011
The Translational Medicine Ontology and Knowledge Base: driving personalized medicine by bridging the gap between bench and bedside
Linked open drug data for pharmaceutical research and development Journal of Cheminformatics Thematic Series around the "ACS RDF 2010" meeting 2011
Tutorial: Query Federation with SWObjects at SWAT4LS 2010
Provenance of Microarray Experiments for a Better Understanding of Experiment Results
Integrating findings of traditional medicine with modern pharmaceutical research: the potential role of linked open data Chinese Medicine Journal 2010
Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN) Ontology - W3C Note 2009
SIOC, SIOC Types and Health Care and Life Sciences - W3C Note 2009
SWAN/SIOC: Alignment Between the SWAN and SIOC Ontologies - W3C Note 2009
A journey to Semantic Web query federation in the life sciences - BMC Bioinformatics Special Issue: "Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences" 2009
Linking Open Drug Data - iTriplification Challenge 2009
Linked Data for Connecting Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine - Abstract for poster at DILS 2009
Pharma Ontology: Creating a Patient-centric Ontology for Translational Medicine - Abstract for poster at ICBO 2009
Enabling Tailored Therapeutics with Linked Data - LDOW Workshop, WWW 2009
A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life Sciences - W3C Note 2008
Experiences with the Conversion of SenseLab Databases to RDF/OWL - W3C Note 2008