Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS)
Tutorial
(updated March 5, 2010)
- Lee Feigenbaum,
Presentation slides, web: click here
- Susie Stephens
- Kei Cheung, Presentation slides, .pdf: click here
- Elgar Pichler, Presentation slides, .pdf: click here
- Vipul Kashap, Presentation slides, .pdf: click here
- John Madden
- M. Scott Marshall, Presentation slides, .pdf: click here
- Tim Clark, Presentation slides, .pdf: click here
This half day tutorial will include two educational elements. W3C's Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) brings together many leading bioinformaticists and life scientists to solve a very wide array of data expression/integration problems in terms of modeling, unifying and querying biological data. This work is founded upon the full suite of W3C Semantic Web technology standards that work together to provide a rich semantic toolbox for software and system developers.
The first half of this tutorial will present a nuts-and-bolts introduction to many of the W3C Semantic Web technologies. We will motivate the introductions with use cases and examples taken from the health care and life sciences domains.
The tutorial will cover the following technologies:
- RDF (data model)
- RDFS (schema language)
- OWL (ontology language)
- SPARQL (query language)
- GRDDL (XML to RDF)
- RDFa (embedding RDF in HTML)
Part two of the tutorial explores the latest accomplishments and ongoing projects of the W3C HCLSIG as it continues to develop, advocate for, and support the use of Semantic Web technologies for biological science, translational medicine and health care. The HCLSIG tutorial will present an overview of the activities of each of the current task forces in HCLSIG will be provided, along with a description of how specific Semantic Web technologies are being applied. The tutorial will focus on ways in which participants can both benefit from and contribute to the work of the HCLSIG.