Hi Richard,
Thanks for digging this up. As a reminder: aTags = a convention for using
the SIOC vocabulary for the simple representation of scientific assertions
annotated with terms from controlled vocabularies.
The aTag website fell in disrepair when I left DERI (a fate of so many
research-driven projects...), but I will now work with Lena to bring at
least parts of it back online. So far, aTags were adopted in the context of
some research projects, but not on any broader scale or independent from
this group (at least I am not aware of it).
However, I will revisit aTags in the context of ongoing work (e.g.,
summarizing biomedical articles quickly to make research findings easier to
consume in time-constrained clinical settings). It might be interesting to
switch from the SIOC vocabulary to a very simple extension of Schema.org...
so far, Schema.org does not really cover this, but extending it would be
very simple.
aTags should be very simple to create, integrate and consume (you don't have
the problem of different ontology design patterns), so I can encourage you
to expose some of the data you are working on in this format!
Cheers,
Matthias
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From: "Richard Boyce" <rd...@pitt.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 9:05 PM
To: <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Subject: aTag and conclusion sections from PubMed
A few years ago Matthias and others did some interesting work on aTags
<http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/S1/S5#B28> and an initial extraction
of conclusions from PubMed abstracts still queryable in the HCLS knowledge
base. Does anyone know what the status of the atag approach is? Did it
gain traction in the SW community or is has work progressed in some way?
Also, I would be interested to expand the conclusions section demo, any
way that could be accomplished?
I see that most of the related links seem to be dead on the HCLS site:
<http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG_BioRDF_Subgroup/aTags/datasets>. The
science commons still provides a text annotation service that embeds atags
<http://whatizit.neurocommons.org/>.
Since I didn't start working with this group until 2010 I am still
discovering work done by members of the group several years ago!
-Rich
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Faculty, Geriatric Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Gero-Informatics Research
and Training Program
Scholar, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program
University of Pittsburgh
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