Re: Good news from the EBI Semantic Web Industry Workshop and LODD members

Hi Rebholz,

are the slides you mentioned already available? if so, where can I find them?

thanks,
Erick

On 26 May 2011 09:08, RebholzSchuhmann <d.rebholz.schuhmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this looks pretty comprehensive.
>
> Below is the list of speakers:
>
> M. Scott Marshall (The W3C consortium). Where is the W3C now and what should
> happen next?
> Phil Brooks (Eli Lilly), Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences
> (Tutorial)
> Lee Harland (Pfizer) Industry needs
> Derek Scuffell (Syngenta) Opportunities and minimum requirements for
> industry
> Phil Ashworth (UCB) Industrial Strength Architectures for life sciences,
> including considerations for federated search.
> Don Jennings (Eli Lilly) Experience of TopBraid, Integrating semantic access
> to data within Lilly and building linked data maps
> Laurent Alquier (J&J) Intranet data integration using Semantic MediaWiki
> Nicolas Le Novère (EMBL-EBI), the Importance of Semantics to Systems Biology
> Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (EMBL-EBI) Practical experiences from the SESL
> (Semantic Enhancement of the Scientific Literature) project.
> Jerven Bolleman (SIB) Quality control using sparql and UniProt rdf
> Jeremy Frey (U. Southampton) Practical applications of semantic web
> technology in Chemistry.
> Dean Allemang Examples of best practice from industry
> Michel Dumontier (Carleton University) Bio2RDF
> Matthias Samwald, (Medical University of Vienna), title TBC
>
> => 50 Attendees sounds right.
> => There has been some room for break-out sessions and the definition of
> business needs / challenges
> => The workshop serves as one source of input to define the EBI's stand on
> Semantic Web technology (past, present, future)
> => The IP workshop was followed by a two-day tutorial on Linked Data /
> Ontologies / Semantic resources (Slides will be available soon)
>
> Concerning Scott's email: there are a couple of resources (Triple Stores)
> under development at the EBI, which are or will be available as public
> resources and which distribute data of different kinds:
> * SPARQL endpoints (UniProt, SESL, possibly ChEMBL)
> * Triple Stores for download:
> *** UniProt
> *** SESL: Diabetes driven data integration, incl. ArrayExpress, UniProt,
> publisher data, in preparation
> *** CALBC: several 100k Medline abstracts with a large number of
> annotations, genes/proteins, diseases, chemical entities, species, all about
> immunology
>
> Stay tuned,
>     -drs-
>
>
>
> On 25/05/2011 11:57, LeeH wrote:
>
> I didnt see these questions get answered so...
>
> - The workshop was organised by me (Lee Harland, Pfizer), Derek Scuffle
> (Syngenta), Dominc Clark & Nicolas Le Novere.
>
> - There were about 50 people there, mostly industry and some invited
> speakers & some EBI
>
> - For those who dont know it, the EBI industry programme is a
> subscription-based group that provides a mechanism for life science industry
> to work directly with the EBI on strategy and addressing needs. The workshop
> was part of a large series of workshops we run on many different topics
> relevant to industry (google ebi industry programme for more info). The aim
> of this was to allow industry to chat about its experience with SW in an
> informal setting, away from the pressure of big conferences, and to explore
> areas of collaboration with the EBI
>
> - There were no biotech representatives there; the EBI also runs an SME
> forum which provides a similar mechanism for EBI & biotech to get together.
> I dont know much more than this, but if interested Dominic Clark is your
> man.
>
> - Access to the presentations. I was going to speak to dominic about this
> next week. Generally presentations are stored in a secure website, which
> allows presenters (especially from companies) to be sure their materials are
> not generally distributed. However, i think many presenters whould be OK
> with this, so we will see what we can do...
>
> - Finally, is this related to the Pistoia alliance.... The direct answer is
> no. The EBI industry programme is a completely separate entity and this was
> purely based on that. However, a significant number of folks who are active
> in Pistoia (such as me) have also worked long term with the EBI. the EBI is
> also a member of Pistoia too. So, i think the best thing to say is that
> "there are great connections between the 2 groups". Also the EBI is the lead
> on the Pistoia SESL project (semantic enrichement of the scientific
> literature - more details are available to those interested), so there are
> firm connections between ebi & pistoia in the semantic area
>
> I think that answers all the questions I've seen.... Happy to talk to anyone
> about thoughts/opportunities etc. Within Pistoia we're actively discussing
> where the semantic web fits, to that end there's an interesting meeting
> coming up
> http://www.pistoiaalliance.org/2011-Events/6-june-2011-pistoia-alliance-technical-committee-open-teleconference-and-webinar.html
>
>
> Lee
>
>
>
>
>
> On 25 May 2011 09:17, Erick Antezana <erick.antezana@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> are the presentations/program somewhere available?
>
> was there any representative of a biotech company attending such workshop?
>
> is it somehow related to the Pistoia Alliance?
>
> cheers,
> Erick
>
> On 25 May 2011 00:56, M. Scott Marshall <mscottmarshall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Last week, Michel Dumontier, Matthias Samwald and I were invited to
>> speak at the EBI Semantic Web Industry Workshop. We each gave some
>> HCLS perspectives and heard many other very interesting talks from
>> industry representatives. Phil Brooks (Johnson & Johnson) gave an
>> excellent tutorial. TopBraid Composer was widely touted. A few
>> encouraging news items: Nicolas Le Novere told us that MIRIAM
>> identifiers will go to URIs (from URNs) and Jerven Bolleman told us
>> that Uniprot is getting a SPARQL endpoint for their RDF. There was a
>> strong pharma presence at the workshop.
>>
>> Also, on the LODD front:
>>
>> * Oktie Hassanzadeh has created a linkedct (linked version of
>> clinicaltrials.gov) that is updated nightly
>> * Anja Jentzsch is working on an update of several Berlin-hosted LODD data
>> sets
>> * Egon Willighagen is updating the downloadable RDF version of ChEMBL
>> to version 9
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Scott
>>
>> --
>> M. Scott Marshall, W3C HCLS IG co-chair, http://www.w3.org/blog/hcls
>> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall
>>
>>
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> EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton CB10 1SD (UK)
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