W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group

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• W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life
  Sciences Interest Group

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Agenda

• Introduction to the HCLS IG
• Eric Prudhommeaux, W3C
• Clinical Observations Interoperability Task
• Vipul Kashyap, Cigna Healthcare
• Terminology Task
• John Madden, Duke University
• Linking Open Drug Data Task
• Susie Stephens, Eli Lilly
• Scientific Discourse Task
• Tim Clark, Harvard University
• BioRDF Task
• Kei Cheung, Yale University

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• Introduction to the HCLS IG

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Background of the HCLS IG

• Originally chartered in 2005
• Chairs Eric Neumann and Tonya Hongsermeier
• Re-chartered in 2008
• Chairs Scott Marshall and Susie Stephens
• Team contact Eric Prudhommeaux
• 96 formal participants, and mailing list of gt
  500
• Information about the group
• http//www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/
• http//esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG

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Mission of HCLS IG

• The mission of HCLS is to develop, advocate for,
  and support the use of Semantic Web technologies
  for
• Biological science
• Translational medicine
• Health care
• These domains stand to gain tremendous benefit by
  adoption of Semantic Web technologies, as they
  depend on the interoperability of information
  from many domains and processes for efficient
  decision support

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Group Activities

• Document use cases to aid individuals in
  understanding the business and technical benefits
  of using Semantic Web technologies
• Document guidelines to accelerate the adoption
  of the technology
• Implement a selection of the use cases as
  proof-of-concept demonstrations
• Develop high-level vocabularies
• Disseminate information about the groups work
  at government, industry, and academic events

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Current Task Forces

• BioRDF integrated neuroscience knowledge base
• Kei Cheung (Yale University)
• Clinical Observations Interoperability patient
  recruitment in trials
• Vipul Kashyap (Cigna Healthcare)
• Linking Open Drug Data aggregation of
  Web-based drug data
• Chris Bizer (Free University Berlin)
• Pharma Ontology high level patient-centric
  ontology
• Christi Denney (Eli Lilly)
• Scientific Discourse building communities
  through networking
• Tim Clark (Harvard University)
• Terminology Semantic Web representation of
  existing resources
• John Madden (Duke University)

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Accomplishments

• Technical
• HCLS KB hosted at 2 institutes, with content from
  x data sources
• ClinicalTrials.gov, DailyMed, DrugBank,
  Diseasome added to Linked Data Cloud
• Integration of SWAN and SIOC ontologies for
  Scientific Discourse
• COI demonstrator of querying across heterogeneous
  EHR systems
• Outreach
• Conference Presentations and Workshops
• Bio-IT World, WWW, ISMB, ISWC, AMIA, Society for
  Neuroscience, C-SHALS, etc.
• Publications
• BMC Bioinformatics Advanced Translational
  Research with the Semantic Web
• AMIA Spring Symposium Clinical Observations
  Interoperability A Semantic Web Approach
• W3C Note A Prototype Knowledge Base for the Life
  Sciences
• W3C Note Experiences with the Conversion of
  SenseLab Databases to RDF/OWL

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Getting Involved

• Benefits to getting involved include
• Early access to use cases and best practice
• Influence standard recommendations
• Cost effective exploration of new technology
  through collaboration
• Network with others working on the Semantic Web
• Get involved
• Speak to any of us after the session!
• Email chairs and team contact
• team-hcls-chairs_at_w3.org
• Participate in the F2F on April 30/May 1
• http//esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG/Meetings/2009-04-30
  _F2F