Re-use or Re-invention - a Roadmap for Data Integration 27th-28th November 2006

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Re-use or Re-invention - a Roadmap for Data
Integration 27th-28th November 2006

• Prof. Jessie Kennedy
• e-SI Research Theme Leader

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e-SI Research Theme

• Exploiting Diverse Sources of Scientific Data
• Aim of theme is to investigate some of the issues
  and solutions to exploiting diverse sources of
  scientific data.
• Theme Wiki
• http//wiki.esi.ac.uk

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Workshops hosted in theme

• Spatiotemporal Databases for Geosciences,
  Biomedical Sciences and Physical sciences, eSI,
  1-2 November 2005
• Oracle Corporation and the e-Science Institute
  Seminar - Temporal Database in Depth Time and
  the Data Warehouse, eSI, 3 November 2005
• The Second Workshop on Scientific Data Mining,
  Integration and Visualization (SDMIV2), eSI,
  December 2005
• DIALOGUE meeting, 9-10 February 2006
• Integrated Health Records - Practice and
  Technology, 9-10 March 2006
• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)
  Technical Architecture Group meeting, 11 April
  2006
• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) Core
  Ontology, 16-18 May
• RDF, Ontologies and Meta-Data Workshop, 7-9 June
  2006
• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) GUIDs-2,
  10-12 June 2006
• The Closed World of Databases Meets the Open
  World of the Semantic Web 12-13th October 2006

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Workshops hosted in theme

• Spatiotemporal Databases for Geosciences,
  Biomedical Sciences and Physical sciences, eSI,
  1-2 November 2005
• Oracle Corporation and the e-Science Institute
  Seminar - Temporal Database in Depth Time and
  the Data Warehouse, eSI, 3 November 2005
• The Second Workshop on Scientific Data Mining,
  Integration and Visualization (SDMIV2), eSI, 14
  December 2005
• DIALOGUE meeting, 9-10 February 2006
• Integrated Health Records - Practice and
  Technology, 9-10 March 2006
• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG)
  Technical Architecture Group meeting, 11 April
  2006
• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) Core
  Ontology, 16-18 May
• RDF, Ontologies and Meta-Data Workshop, 7-9 June
  2006
• Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) GUIDs-2,
  10-12 June 2006
• The Closed World of Databases Meets the Open
  World of the Semantic Web, 12-13 October 2006

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Recurring Issues ? Focus

• Architectures for Data Integration
• What strategies are used for data integration
• workflow architectures
• grid architectures
• Globally Unique Identifiers
• What gets a GUID? Who issues them? What
  technology?
• Metadata, Terminologies and Ontologies needed
• Data discovery for sharing/analysis (integrating)
• Understanding the content of data sets
• Automatic transformations (semantic mediation)
• Will these solve the problems?

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Metadata and Ontologies

• Issues
• Standardisation of formats
• Creation of metadata and ontologies
• Manual and automatic
• For whom and by whom?
• Many or one ontology (granularity)?
• How do we integrate them or map between them?
• How do we choose which to use/reuse?
• How do we know data is suitable for our purpose?

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Re-use or Re-invention - a Roadmap for Data
Integration

• Investigate data integration issues in the
  Neuroscience community
• Data
• Collection across sites and populations
• Integration of different types of data
• Integration of data at different levels of
  granularity
• Ontologies
• Harmonisation or Integration
• Day 1 - General issues
• integration across sites and populations
• Day 2 - Special areas of interest
• ontologies information governance
• Format
• Brief Introductory Talks followed by Roundtable
  discussions

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Enjoy the Workshop!