The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group is now closed. The mission of the group was to develop, advocate for, and support the use of Semantic Web technologies across health care, life sciences, clinical research and … Continue reading
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 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