I think that much of the material from the SWObjects tutorial would be interesting to C-SHALS participants.
Of course, Eric knows about the query federation tutorial he gave at SWAT4LS[1] in Berlin but his message reminded me that I haven't mentioned it on the mailing list except during teleconferences and in the HCLS blog[2]. The tutorial is also in Nature Precedings[3]. Anyway, even if you've see this before, it bears repeating: http://tinyurl.com/swobjects-swat4ls Essentially, SWObjects enables you to create semantic views across a federation of SPARQL endpoints and RDB database connectors. You can also do handy things like create a SPARQL endpoint based on a file: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/swobjects/index.php?title=Data_Wiki Also, worth checking out is the microarray RDF demo: http://purl.org/net/biordfmicroarray/demo . Cheers, Scott [1] http://www.swat4ls.org/2010/progr.php#details [2] http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls [3] http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5538/ -- M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair, http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux <e...@w3.org> wrote: > There will be an HCLS tutorial (I think maybe 100 minutes?) at C-SHALS > this year. (The abstract is at the bottom of this message.) I've just > made a pass at composing the slides. (The abstract is repeated on the > slides to remind you what I promised what we'd talk about.) > > http://www.w3.org/2011/Talks/0223-cshals-egp/ > > I believe the tutorial needs more hands-on stuff; I'm soliciting > feedback and ideas. > > > The abstract is promised: > > The W3C's Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLS IG) has been > working since 2005 with multiple communities and Semantic Web technologies > towards goals such as immediate availability of scientific publications; > improved synthesis between scientific findings; better patient recruitment > for drug trials; and early redirection of non-promising clinical trials. > > Today, there is a new convergence of communities in health care and life > sciences. Pharmaceutical companies, clinical care providers and individual > patients have intersecting interests in Translational Medicine. > Pharmaceutical companies have a new interest in more detailed patient records > rather than aggregate data because of the shift towards tailored therapeutics. > > Consumers advocating for personally controlled health care records are a new > audience interested in health care data. Clinicians, pharmaceutical companies > and individuals will benefit from health care data which is easy to integrate > with genomics, bio informatics, chem informatics and environmental data. > > In this tutorial session, we will show you how W3C's HCLS IG is integrating > data across these domains. We will demonstrate the use of commodity Semantic > Web tools to ask valuable questions of a corpus of health care data, and show > how this corpus draws on such systems as the Indivo EHR system, the I2B2 > clinical information exchange protocols, and databases backing conventional > clinical data stores. > > Attendees will learn to use and customize these open source tools to meet > their clinical or research needs. > > — http://www.iscb.org/cshals2011-program/cshals2011-tutorial > -- > -ericP > >
