RE: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)

Indeed this would be an interesting set to rdf-ize. It might also be interesting based on the dataset complexity (i.e., moderate complexity) to see what practical stratgey for RDF conversion one would choose. 

http://seer.cancer.gov/data/

Perhaps a few folks could look at this data structure, consider some approaches (e.g., RDF-Schema only vs. a minimal ontology), and discuss this on the next BioRDF call?

Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org on behalf of Alan Ruttenberg
Sent: Wed 10/3/2007 1:07 AM
To: public-semweb-lifesci hcls
Subject: Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)
 

At a talk I attended today, this resource of patient cancer diagnoses  
was mentioned as an example of publicly available clinical data. A  
quick look over the documentation suggests it might be an interesting  
project to produce an RDF version of the data set.

http://seer.cancer.gov/data/

The SEER limited-use data* include SEER incidence and population data  
associated by age, sex, race, year of diagnosis, and geographic areas  
(including SEER registry and county)

-Alan