On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:

> * Joanne Luciano (gmail) <jluci...@gmail.com> [2011-02-18 11:05-0500]
>> Scott, 
>> 
>> I'm copying the RPI group involved with the CSHALS tutorial (incl some 
>> indirectly as a fyi).
> 
> Ah, good, thanks. I peeked at your abstract:
>  http://www.iscb.org/cshals2011-program/cshals2011-tutorial#rpi
> to get a sense of how to connect. I also don't know what my schedule
> is. How many hours? Starting when?



Looks like you're 8:30-10:30

http://www.iscb.org/cshals2011-program/cshals2011-full-agenda

-Tim



> 
> 
>> Joanne
>> 
>> On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:27 AM, M. Scott Marshall wrote:
>> 
>>> 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
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> -- 
> -ericP
> 


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