Author Archives: Susie Stephens

The HCLS IG will be having two informal gatherings in April. The first gathering will be held at the Stata Center, MIT, on April 22, from 5pm. It is expected that many of the people who are attending Bio-IT World … Continue reading →

The agenda for the WWW2010 workshop on The Future of the Web for Collaborative Science is now available. Due to the large number of high quality submissions some difficult decisions had to be made. In total 9 papers were accepted, … Continue reading →

W3C’s HCLS group is going to be giving a tutorial at the upcoming Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS), which is being held on February 24-26, in Cambridge, MA. Lee Feigenbaum (Cambridge Semantics) is going to start … Continue reading →

Good news! The Translational Medicine Ontology task has had a poster accepted for presentation at the 2010 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. The conference is being held in San Francisco, on March 10-12, 2010. Please come along to learn more … Continue reading →

The HCLS IG is going to be having a workshop at WWW2010 on The Future of the Web for Collaborative Science. More details about the workshop, including information related to submitting a paper, is available on the group’s wiki site.

The next HCLS F2F meeting is being held on November 2-3, so it’s approaching rapidly. We have some excellent talks arranged. Don Doherty (Brainstage) will be giving an introduction to neuroscience, and presenting on informatics requirements. Mark Musen (Stanford) will … Continue reading →

The W3C HCLS Interest Group has now finalized the agenda for the Workshop on Scientific Discourse at ISWC 2009. David Shotton (University of Oxford) has kindly agreed to give a keynote presentation on Enabling Semantic Publication and Integration of Scientific … Continue reading →

I’d like to congratulate the Linking Open Drug Data task within W3C’s Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group for winning the Triplification Challenge this year. Anja Jentzsch, Jun Zhao, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Matthias Samwald and Bo Andersson did … Continue reading →

The Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has had a workshop accepted at ISWC 2009 on Semantic Web Applications in Scientific Discourse. Scientific research is becoming both increasingly interdisciplinary, and dependent for dissemination on the Web. Yet the form … Continue reading →

The HCLS IG gave a tutorial at the C-SHALS Conference last week. It was very well attended and consisted of participants from pharma, payers, health care organizations, technology companies, and academia. The first half of the tutorial began with a … Continue reading →