Dear Kerstin,
LinkedCT provides many external links including the seeAlso links you have
pointed out, so the data is clearly 5-star Linked Data.
Regarding the type of the links, there were long discussions at some point
on this same list I believe on whether or not we should use sameAs to link
to
Kerstin, thanks for initiating the conversation.
Our philosophy has been to code fields to identifiers with inherent meaning
and leverage existing taxonomies whenever possible. Thus we code
organizations to root URLs, drugs to INN or USAN names, disease to MeSH,
etc. The more that's done at the
Dear Oktie,
Yes, and I'm also pointing colleagues to this great dataset part of LODD (
http://linkedct.org).
Two reflections:
1) My understanding is that colleagues are more comfortable with going
directly to the source and use the XML download (
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/resources/download )
Dear Kerstin,
Have you ever looked at http://linkedct.org ?
LinkedCT uses a complex process to turn ClinicalTrials.gov into
high-quality 5-start Linked Data. And yes it does provide HTTP URIs for all
the "things" on ClinicalTrials.gov, provides HTML or RDF, SPARQL endpoint,
etc.
Please take a lo
Hi,
a couple of tweets, blog post comments 1) and email exchanges during the
week on moving ClinicalTrials.gov "from strings to things" made me think
this could be a topic for discussion at the upcoming CSHALS. As I'll not be
able to be there in person I'm using this email list to hear your thought
[Apologies for cross-posting]
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