Providing a context for RDF

Dear All,

In the BIORDF teleconference on Monday March 6, 2006, we established the 
desire to "ground" eventual demo(s) in a specific research question or 
"application". Ideally, an experimental context would focus Data-to-RDF 
translation activities within a particular use case. For example, a 
*specific* research or clinical question could lead to the data 
integration of the specific datasets needed to address the question and 
thus allow us to proceed with the minimal semantics needed to "cover" 
the question utilizing the select datasets. Such a data integration 
experiment could lead to a demo.

Noting that neuroscience has a strong representation in HCLSIG, a 
research question in that area should have a wide appeal. Some people 
with expertise/research on Huntington's Disease (HD) are in or 
associated with the BIORDF group, including the University of 
Amsterdam[1] and Joanne Luciano, who also performed HD research in 
recent years.

Our question is whether there are others associated with HCLSIG that 
have knowledge of or ties to active research in HD that would make their 
scientific expertise available to HCLSIG (and BIORDF, in particular). Or 
is there active research in other areas through HCLSIG association 
(Alzheimer's or Parkinson's for example) that would make their expertise 
available, have the appropriate coverage in available datasets and would 
therefore make a better context for the demo?  The BioRDF group seeks 
suggestions and input from the broader HCLSIG community. One important 
factor in the choice of use case question is an understanding of and 
access to data that we can use to ask meaningful questions.

We would like to discuss this issue during the HCLSIG teleconference on 
Thursday.

-scott

[1] http://integrativebioinformatics.nl/projects/hd/huntingtons.html

Received on Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:47:04 UTC