RE: HCLS Demo at ISMB/ECCB

I'll also add that there were many (young) researchers wanting to get involved in Semantic Web activities. I strongly encouraged them to participate with HCLSIG and pointed them to our pages and mailing list.  (Several groups had large amounts of RDF data that they were willing to put into the public web space-- we need to see how best to work together so that all the data in 'linked' as effectively as possible).

In browsing the ISMB posters, a large number of them either mentioned Semantic Web or RDF, a sign that it is becoming acceptable in bioinformatics and genomics. I agree with Scott, ISMB next year will be an important venue for many of us in HCLS...

As for the demo, I have a few ideas of making the query interface more user-friendly to non-SQL folks-- let's discuss over the next few days.

cheers,
Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: public-semweb-lifesci-request@w3.org on behalf of Alan Ruttenberg
Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 12:22 AM
To: Eric Neumann
Cc: W3C HCLSIG hcls; M. Scott Marshall
Subject: Re: HCLS Demo at ISMB/ECCB
 

Good news! Congrats and thanks, Eric!

If you prepared any new materials (additional slides, etc) or have  
any tips on how you approached the presentation, please send them on.

Best,
Alan

On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:27 PM, M. Scott Marshall wrote:

>
> Dear All,
>
> Just wanted to note this success for HCLS:
> At ISMB/ECCB[1] in Vienna, HCLS was well-represented. Eric Neumann
> presented the HCLS demo[2] 'live' to an overflowing room. Eric's
> presentation was very clear, well-paced, and had just the right  
> level of
> detail to help ISMB/ECCB folks understand what HCLS is doing. In my
> estimation, the demo reached its target - as good as it gets. Not only
> that - a 'live' demo that actually worked well!
>
> Matthias Samwald presented a poster about HCLS work at the BioOnt
> Workshop. His poster was well-visited. We should hear more from  
> Matthias
> about ISMB at the BioRDF Telcon next Monday.
>
> ISMB is an excellent place for HCLS people to meet like-minded people.
> Consider going next year (Toronto):
> http://www.iscb.org/events/event_data.php?660
>
> -scott
>
> [1]http://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007/
> 	
> -- 
> M. Scott Marshall
> http://staff.science.uva.nl/~marshall
> http://adaptivedisclosure.org
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