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W3C Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group is designed to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions.
News and Events
5A- 2007-10-08:Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences BOF at ISWC, Busan, Korea.
During the W3C Tech Plenary: info & registration
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2007-10-01: HCLS F2F Nov 8-9, Cambridge, USA.
During the W3C Tech Plenary: HCLS Members and Invited Experts registration; Invited Guests and Tech Plenary participants registration
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2007-09-11:GRDDL Standard Provides Bridge from Web Documents to the Semantic Web. The World Wide Web Consortium today released GRDDL and GRDDL Test Cases as Recommendations. GRDDL enables authors to extract data from their documents automatically, enabling them to reuse their data and enrich it by connecting to the Semantic Web. Give the W3C GRDDL Service a try! Read the GRDDL Primer, the press release and testimonials, and about the Semantic Web. (Permalink)
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Last Call: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
2007-03-27: : Comments are due by 18 April.(Permalink)
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HCLS demo, planned for WWW2007 in Banff. To help participate in the demo, please contact Alan Ruttenberg.
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Eric Prud'hommeaux, new W3C staff contact for HCLS.
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GRDDL links Microformats and Semantic Web: Working Draft xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg"(Permalink)
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Upcoming HCLS Workshop at ISWC2006, November 6th, Athens, Georgia - Conference Registration
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Next F2F HCLS Meeting Scheduled for Oct 3-4, 2006, in Amsterdam, NL Announcement and Registration
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MIT's President Hockfield discusses the promise of the Semantic Web at DrugDisc, Aug 2006
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Upcoming HCLS Related Conferences
- Semantic Web session at Drug Discovery Development and Therapeutics, Boston, August 6, 2007.
Recent Conferences
- Semantic Web Presentations at Bio-ITWorld, Boston, April 30-May 2, 2007.
- HCLS Workshop, WWW2007 Banff, Alberta, May 8, 2007.
- Workshop on a Clinical Trial Ontology, sponsored by NCBO, May 16-17, 2007, location TBD
- Semantic Web Technologies in Drug Development DIA, June 20, 2007, Atlanta GA.
- Tutorial on Semantic Web Applications in CDM, DIA Clinical Data Managementt, March 18, 2007.
- HCLS Workshop at ISWC2006, Athens Georgia(Permalink)
- HCLS Tutorial, Nov 11, AMIA 2006, Washington, DC
- 2nd F2F HCLS Meeting, Oct 3-4, 2006, Amsterdam, Announcement and Registration (Deadline Sept 15),
- Data Webs: New visions for research data on the web, (Announcement) Wednesday 28th June, 10:00 – 18:00, Imperial College, Exhibition Road, London SW7. Registration
- Drug Discovery Technology August 7-10, 2006, Boston, MA.
- WWW2006 May 2006
- Discovery Knowledge & Informatics, April 25-26, Amsterdam, NL
- PharmaDiscovery, May 2006, Bethesda, MD.
- BioITWorld April 3-5, 2006
- InfoTech Pharma, March 13-16, London, UK
- Semantic Web Life Sciences Workshop, CHI Molecular Medicine "Tri-Conference", February 21, 2006 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco
- HCLSIG Face-to-Face Members Meeting, Jan 25-26, 2006, Cambridge, MA: AGENDA, SUMMARY
- Semantic Web for Life Sciences Session, and Presented Papers: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2006, January 3-7, 2006, Grand Wailea, Wailea, Maui
- Panel: Towards A Semantic Web for Life Sciences, American Medical Informatics Meeting (AMIA), October 22-26 2005, Washington, DC
Contents: Mission and Scope | Membership and Joining | Charter /History | Resources | Presentations | Articles | New and Events | Conferences | Task Forces
Nearby: Discussion archive | HCLS WIKI | Applications and Demonstrations | OWL | RDF Data Access | Rules | Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment
Introduction
Both Life Science Research and Health Care are areas undergoing phenomenal growth, holding much promise for our future as long as we can manage and apply the new knowledge gained without driving up costs. Key to their success is the implementation of new informatics models that will unite many forms of biological and medical information across all institutions, through the encoding of meaning into the data and their interpretations. By focusing on the semantics of information, researchers will have more access to the knowledge required to effectively find cures to diseases, while doctors will have better tools for individualized clinical management of patients.
Mission and Scope
The Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) is chartered to develop and support the use of Semantic Web technologies and practices to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the of Health Care and Life Science domains. Success in these domains depends on a foundation of semantically rich system, process and information interoperability. ( more).
The scope of HCLSIG will include:
- Core vocabularies and ontologies to support cross-community data integration and collaborative efforts
- Guidelines and Best Practices for Resource Identification to support integrity and version control
- Better integration of Scientific Publication with people, data, software, publications, and clinical trials
HCLS will actively coordinate with groups and consortia within Life Sciences and Health Care areas:
- Health Care, Clinical, and Life Science Consortia
- Research Institutes and Centers
- Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Companies
- IT Solution Vendors
- Government Agencies
Information on the benefits and ROI of Semantic Web technologies in Healthcare and Life Science can be found at HCLS ROI Analysis
The HCLSIG will also provide a forum for supporting, guiding and collecting application and implementation experience, along with business and use cases associated with using Semantic Web technologies to solve life science and health care problems. Applications and use cases include:
- BioDash
- SIMILE
- AGFA on 'Connected Knowledge'
- Active Semantic Electronic Medical Record
- Partner's Health Care Knowledge Management Project
A more detailed list of application and implementation experience is availiable.
Read more about the mission of this group in the charter.
Task Forces
As a result of the Activities from the Jan 25-26 F2F Meeting, five new task forces have been drafted to address key areas necessary for implementation of semantic web for healthcare and life sciences. These task forces are a first draft (not yet official) and will be adjusted as necessary as progress is made. Each group is defining their scope, timeline, and deliverables within the 2yr HCLSIG timeframe:
- BIORDF (Structured Data to RDF)
- Scientific Publishing, (formerly Knowledge Life Cycle)
- Ontologies Task Force
- Adaptive Healthcare Protocols and Pathways
- Drug Safety and Efficacy
(10/6/06) Based on the second F2F held in Amsterdam, a specific set of action items have been agreed on: Action Items; Presentations and Minutes
(8/24/06) Renamed Knowledge LifecycleTask Force to Scientific Publishing (AJ Chen Coordinator); ROI Task Force completed
(7/21/06) New Drug Safety and Efficacy Task Force created to address best practices in critical areas of Drug R&D
(5/18/06) The tasks of the former Text-to-Structured Data (T2S) Task Force have been merged with tasks in the BioRDF task force.
Membership and Joining
Communications of the HCLSIG will be public. This includes a public home page that records the history of the group and provides access to public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org mailing list, ( discussion archives), meeting minutes, updated schedule of deliverables, membership list, and relevant documents and resources.
W3C has created the HCLSIG to be an open, sustainable forum. To help ensure that the deliverables identified in this charter are produced in a timely fashion and represent the needs of a variety of communities, we therefore seek both dedicated and broad participation. We anticipate that dedicated individuals will enable the group to make timely progress, and that the diverse communities interested in the goals outlined by this charter -- companies, universities, and organizations of various types -- will be represented in the group.
The HCLSIG therefore welcomes participation from representatives of W3C Member organizations. If you are not a W3C member, but are interested in joining please follow the instructions on how to become a W3C Member. If you are part of a W3C Member organization, you can join the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group by filling in the participation form.
To enable a broad spectrum of input, the HCLSIG also anticipates the active participation of individuals as W3C Invited Experts from universities and organizations. If you're not affiliated with a W3C member organization but you feel you have expertise not currently represented in the group that you would like to contribute, contact the chair and team contact. Additional details regarding membership are defined in the charter.
Participation from W3C Members and non-Member Invited Experts will help ensure the goals of this charter are effectively addressed. A current list of HCLS members is available.
Charter / History
The HCLSIG Charter shows what the W3C has asked this interest group to do. The following events reflect the history of this work and chart our progress:
- Semantic Web for Life Sciences Workshop Oct 27-28, 2004
- HCLSIG Announcement, November 22, 2005
- First HCLSIG F2F Meeting, Jan 25-26, 2006, Boston MA DRAFT AGENDA, REGISTRATION
Resources
Semantic Web Life Science Sources
- AlzPharm, Yale Medical Informatics
- HIVSDB Chemical Taxonomy, NIST Chemical Semantic Web Resourc
- UniProt RDF, UniProt protein database
- Predicted Alternative Spliced Data for Transmembrane Proteins, Affymetrix (M. Cline)
- Bio-Zen Ontolopy, neuroscientific.net
Presentations
- Tim Berners-Lee's video presentation on the Semantic Web
- Tutorial (slides) given at Clinical Data Management Meeting for Drug Information Associations, Orlando March 18, 2007
- MIT's President discusses the promise of Semantic Web from Bench to Bedside, Drug Discovery Technologies Conference, Aug 8, 2006
- Drug Discovery Technologies Conference slides, Boston, MA (8/8/06)
- Semantics for HCLS Tutorial Slides WWW2006 Edinburgh, UK
- WWW2006 W3C -Track
HCLS Wiki Sites
- HCLSIG Activities
- HCLS Use Cases
- Synthetic Biology Community (Harvard-MIT)
- Drug R&D Proof of Concepts Wiki
- HCLS Discussion Topics Wiki
- Semantic Web for Life Sciences (original Wiki)
- Semantic Web For LifeSciences People (Introductions)
Related Articles
- Pharma Researchers Adopt An Orphan Internet Standard Rick Mullin, Chemical & Engineering News, Oct 2007
- Pharma IT Execs Gather to Discuss Concerns; Workflows, Semantic Web Among Hot Topics BioInform, Oct 2007
- Semantic Web Technology:'Glue' for Data IntegrationIT Business Edge, Sept 2007
- Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences Baker, Christopher J.O.; Cheung, Kei-Hoi (Eds.)2007
- The Advantages of a Drug Safety Commons, Bio-ITWorld, Oct 2006
- Science Commons presents licensing alternative, National Law Journal, Oct 16, 2006
- Combining Drug Toxicity Knowledge, Bio-ITWorld, Aug 2006
- Special Life Science issue Journal for Web Semantics, June 2006
- Freeing Data, Keeping Structure Bio-ITWorld, June 2006
- Semantic Web at Cusp of Reality, Bio-ITWorld, June 2006
- Getting to a Semantic Web on the Internet Applied Clinical Trials, March 2006
- Pfizer's Pursuit of Technology, BioITWorld April 2006.
- On Implementing Clinical Decision Support, Partners Healthcare, AMIA 2006
- RDF- The Missing Link, BioITWorld March 2006.
- Jump Starting the Semantic Web, 2005-12-14, Bio-IT World
- Finding The Critical Path: Applying the Semantic Web to Drug Discovery and Development, pp25-33, Drug Discovery World, Fall 2005
- Bio-ITWorld: Masters of the Semantic Web, 2005-10-15, Bio-IT World
- Semantic Web: Safety and Innovation, 2005-10-15, Scott Lundstrom's article on Clinical Applications of the Semantic Web
- Semantic Web for Life Sciences Now!, 2005-09-22, Nodalpoint
- From XML to RDF: how semantic web technologies will change the design of 'omic' standards, 2005-09-07, Nature
- Applied Clinical Trials - Connecting Bench to Bedside
- YeastHub: a semantic web use case for integrating data in the life sciences domain
- Semantic Web for Pharma - IDG Report 2005-08: Semantic Web and Pharma IT: Creating a New Infrastructure for Pharmaceutical Knowledge Management, Scott Lundstrom
HCLS related Tools and Content
Theswe can be found on the updated HCLS Tools and Content WIKI site.
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment working group maintains a more detailed, general list of Applications and demonstrations that may be of additional use.
W3C - HCLS Tools for exposing data in the Semantic Web
Tonya Hongsermeier <thongsermeier@partners.org>, (Partners Healthcare) HCLSIG Co Chair
Eric Neumann <eneumann@teranode.com>, (Teranode Corporation) HCLSIG Co Chair
Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, (W3C) Semantic Web Activity Lead
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