I recently had the good fortune of being invited to give a keynote at the Japanese Semantic Web conference, held at Keio University in beautiful city of Tokyo, Japan. The speaker before me, Tetsuro Toyoda, described how Semantic Web was … Continue reading
The Conference on Semantics in Health Care and Life Sciences (C-SHALS) is being held in Cambridge, MA 23-25 February 2011. The C-SHALS conference provides a forum for advancing the application of Semantic Web Technologies in the Life Sciences. Representatives from … Continue reading
2010 was a good year for the Semantic Web, which has especially gained momentum in health care and life sciences. I will just mention a few of the reasons it was a good year. Semantic Web and Linked Data have … Continue reading
I recently returned home to the Netherlands after visiting NCBO for 7 months. It was inspiring to see such a well-coordinated group and a great opportunity to meet and work with the NCBO team as well as Protégé and others … Continue reading
Next week, Eric Prud’hommeaux will present an “Overview of the linking open drug data task” at the RDF Symposium of the American Chemical Society on August 22 and 23 in Boston. The RDF Symposium is co-organized by HCLS member Egon … Continue reading
Our recent HCLS gatherings went very well in both Boston and Raleigh, with both dinners and discussions. In Boston, we had a fun chat, with a group of people somewhat diminished in size due to the volcano effect. We talked … Continue reading
The HCLS IG had a good year in 2009, with lots of interaction, demonstration, and outreach. HCLS was involved in: C-SHALS Tutorial, Shared Names, Bio-IT World (in Boston and Hannover), Concept Web Alliance (CWA), PRISM Forum SIG, AMIA conferences, 7th … Continue reading
The W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group recently had a very successful Face to Face meeting in Boston, U.S. Although a few of us were meeting F2F for the first time, we had worked together … Continue reading
Having grown to almost 100 participants and 6 active task forces, the HCLS IG will hold a Face to Face (F2F) meeting in the Stata Center in Boston on April 30 and May 1 (Thu and Fri), directly following the … Continue reading
The W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group recently had a successful Face to Face meeting co-located with the Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week in Mandelieu, France. Our two day agenda included several excellent … Continue reading