Hi,
That is a very good point, thanks Mikel and Andrea!
Do you have pointers to such type of data? Shall we consider an IG
for "basic" life sciences?
The LS part of HCLS has indeed been gaining adepts rapidly and it may
make sense to reflect that in the charter.
Cheers,
Lena
2011/5/26 Mikel Egaña Aranguren <meg...@fi.upm.es
<mailto:meg...@fi.upm.es>>
Hi;
I should attend the conference call but I just want to add that I
concur with Andrea in that the HCLS IG should consider the
environmental realm, since loads of new ecological/environment
data, with new challenges to be addressed, are waiting to be
represented semantically. That's precisely one of the lines we
are trying to open here at OEG-UPM.
Cheers
On og., 2011.eko mairen 26a 15:08, Andrea Splendiani wrote:
Hi,
I see myself as more involved in the next incarnation of the
charter ;)
Unfortunately, today is a travel day and I cannot attend the
conference
call.
I have two questions/ideas, which don't really map to the current
sub-groups, but just in case they ring some bell:
-) Is the HCLS exclusively oriented on HeathCare ? (that is,
is the "and" in
Heath Care and Life Sciences IG and AND or an OR ?). Here in
Rothamsted, we
are just starting to evaluate the
Ecological/Agricultural/Environmental
connections to Life Sciences. Does this fall into the remit
of the IG group
?
-) Does the evaluation/ coordination of development of
systems which link
information representation and analysis side fall within the
remit of the IG
? I think interfaces to linked data, as well as tools which
can analyze
linked data are important to improve the acceptance of
Semantic Web
technologies in the Life Sciences.
ciao,
Andrea
Il giorno 24/mag/2011, alle ore 04.04, Eric Prud'hommeaux ha
scritto:
Hi all, as some of you reallize, the charter ends at the
end of this
month. I've been polling around to see what alternative
formulations
would give us the most resources and impact. In the
process, I wrote
up some of our high-level use cases (elevator speeches)
to help us
approach the relevant parties in pharmas, health services and
research:<http://www.w3.org/2011/05/HCLSIGUseCases>.
I'd like to discuss the landscape and potential
strategies with the
community. I'd particularly like to invite those who have
been active
or see themselves as being active in the next incarnation
of the group.
We'll discuss the current, fairly conservative draft charter
<http://www.w3.org/2011/05/HCLSIGCharter-proposal>, as
well as ways to
optimize both its message and the paths for
dissemination. An example
of a messaging alternative would be to characterize the
HCLS IG work
in terms of e.g. overarching translational medicine use
cases:
"
The W3C Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences
Interest Group
focuses on translational medicine use cases. The group
will continue
the aggregation of cutting edge and traditional
scientific knowledge
to meet use cases for researchers, care givers, patients and
regulatory agencies. Due to the scope and diversity of
expertise
required to meet translational needs, the HCLS IG work
is broken
down into discrete task forces focused on particular data
acquisition, modeling and integration requirements:
Terminology - identifying and integrating identifiers
for biological
processes, gross anatomy and medical procedures to promote
unification of domain data.
LODD - curation of compounds, clinical trials and outcomes.
BioRDF - modeling of biological processes and actors.
Scientific Discourse - representation and tracking of
the changing
landscape of scientific knowledge and the driving theora and
experiments.
Translational Medicine - the oversight and high-level
ontology that
connects these disciplines together in order to meet
immediate and
long term needs from pharma, health care and other
vested parties.
"
. Perhaps you all have some other ideas about how to tell
a story
about our work which will serve to both draw people to
our work and
our products and to help already interested parties find
the task
forces which interest them. I of course want to draw an
optimal
balance between doing work which motivates the
participants and
focusing on tasks which will accelerate education and
adoption by
important organizations.
I'm sure you are all aware of my preference for technical
work, but I
feel that this outreach can make us all ultimately more
effective. I
will use the Thursday 26 May HCLS slot (11:00 EDT) to
reach out to the
current HCLS IG community, and whomever else you folks
elect to bring
along. Of course, I'll reserve extra teleconference
slots, but please
RSVP to me privately so I can make a guess at how many
ports to
reserve. Also, please provide what feedback you can
before the
conference. Anything we take care of before will make the
meeting more
efficient.
Conference Details
Date of Call: Thursday, May 26, 2011
Time of Call: 11:00 am Eastern Time, 4 pm UK, 5 pm CET
Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 <tel:%2B1.617.761.6200>
(Cambridge, MA)
[Note: limited access to European dial in numbers below]
Dial-In #: +33.4.26.46.79.03 <tel:%2B33.4.26.46.79.03>
(Nice, France)
Dial-In #: +44.203.318.0479 <tel:%2B44.203.318.0479>
(Bristol, UK)
Participant Access Code: 4257 ("HCLS")
IRC Channel: irc.w3.org <http://irc.w3.org/> port 6665
channel #HCLS (see W3C IRC page for
details, or see Web IRC), Quick Start: Use
http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.w3.org:6665&channel=%23hcls
<http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.w3.org:6665&channel=%23hcls>
for
IRC access.
Duration: ~1 hour
Convener: Eric Prud'hommeaux
Scribe: TBD
HCLS IG charter/strategy discussion
--
-ericP
Andrea Splendiani
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology
+44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004
<tel:%2B44%280%291582%20763133%20ext%202004>
andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk
<mailto:andrea.splendi...@bbsrc.ac.uk>
--
Mikel Egaña Aranguren, PhD
http://mikeleganaaranguren.com <http://mikeleganaaranguren.com/>
Marie Curie post-doc at Ontology Engineering Group, UPM
http://www.oeg-upm.net/
--
Helena F. Deus
Post-Doctoral Researcher at DERI/NUIG
http://lenadeus.info/
