Hello Oktie
With respect, I think you have it backwards. The easiest way to show
people things is on web pages, not custom queries. The usual pattern is
to first get them interested and then decide whether we might work
together on a project.
In order to implement the labeling I suggest the follo
Alan,
One of the benefits of Linked Data is that you can always use an
alternative browser or write your own app if you are not happy with the
HTML presentation that the source provides. I agree that some of the labels
are far from useful, but most of LinkedCT's data transformation process is
auto
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Subject: Re: From strings to things: ClinicalTrials.gov
Oktie,
One thing I think would be helpful is attending more to using human readable
labels for terms. For example, if we browse directly at linkedct.org we see a
lot of long strings of numbers. But for most of these there is a
Oktie,
One thing I think would be helpful is attending more to using human
readable labels for terms. For example, if we browse directly at
linkedct.org we see a lot of long strings of numbers. But for most of
these there is a reasonable label. For example, under outcomes, the
first element is pri
Have you looked at https://www.clinicaltrialsregister.eu as well? We
did a little work in our group regarding eligibility criteria, and had
the impression that the curation was often substantially more detailed
at the EU site.
In our limited review, both sites, however, suffered from the
inability
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
