Hello W3C Semantic Web HCLSIG,
My name is Chris Mavergames and I'm the Director of Web Development for
The Cochrane Collaboration (www.cochrane.org <http://www.cochrane.org>
<http://www.cochrane.org>), an international, non-profit healthcare
research organisation dedicated to producing systematic reviews of
healthcare interventions and the best-available evidence for healthcare
decision-making for clinicians, patients, policy-makers and others
working in healthcare delivery. Our resource, The Cochrane Library
(http://www.thecochranelibrary.com), includes the Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews
(http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#CDSR),
with more than 5,000 systematic reviews, and CENTRAL (Cochrane Central
Register of Controlled Trials -
http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#CENTRAL),
which contains nearly 700,000 records of clinical trials and studies.
About a year ago, we began exploring how we could use semantic web and
linked data technologies to provide better links between our own
datasets and to make our data interoperable with other datasets in the
bio-medical domain. In this project, we made an initial, first draft
ontology by modeling Cochrane systematic reviews (in OWL, RDFS) which
include core concepts in evidence-based health care. Early on we
recognized that linking studies to Reviews offered many opportunities
and benefits but also that linking to other datasets such as Drugbank,
one of the resources in linkedlifedata.com <http://linkedlifedata.com>
(http://linkedlifedata.com/sources)
<http://linkedlifedata.com/sources%29> as well as using ontologies like
the OCRe (http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/1076)
<http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/1076%29> could allow for
even more possibilities in making our content more accessible, useful
and interoperable.
More information about our project can be found in the following 2
presentations:
http://www.slideshare.net/mavergames/linked-data-and-cochrane-reviews-12936733
http://www.slideshare.net/mavergames/sustainability-and-cochrane-reviews-how-technology-can-help-12207716
Currently, our goal is to complete our ontology of systematic reviews
and look to broaden it to include all the concepts in the domain and
create an evidence-based healthcare ontology. Michel Dumontier suggested
that perhaps the "Scientific Discourse Task Force" might be the best
place to discuss this project. May I suggest that we arrange a call so
that I can discuss our project in more detail with that or one of the
other task forces?
In addition, is anyone in the HCLSIG involved in the efforts to create
health & medical extensions to Schema.org?
(http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/MedicalHealthProposal)
<http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/MedicalHealthProposal%29>
Thanks, in advance, for your input.
Best regards,
Chris Mavergames
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Chris Mavergames
Director of Web Development
The Cochrane Collaboration | www.cochrane.org
German Cochrane Centre/Deutsches Cochrane Zentrum
University Medical Centre Freiburg/Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Institute for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics/Institut für
Medizinische Biometrie und Medizinische Informatik
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