FW: Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group extended until 31 December 2007

I am pleased to announce to the HCLS group, that the AC has agreed to extend the current HCLSIG charter to Dec 31 2007. The original ending date was ambiguous (Sept 31, 2007 by most accounts), but the new date allows current HCLS activities to complete their tasks before the next charter would be in place. 

The schedule info will be posted on the main HCLS site.

best,
Eric


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
extended	until 31 December 2007
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:11:43 +0000
From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
Organization: W3C
To: w3c-ac-members@w3.org
CC: ivan@w3.org, ralph@w3.org

Dear Advisory Committee Representative,

The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group [1]
was chartered through September 2007 to provide a forum for collecting
experience and supporting discussion on using Semantic Web
technologies to solve life science and health care problems.  The
Group has done work on studying the scientific publishing process,
looked at domain-specific ontologies and the use of Semantic Web
technologies to support clinical trials for drug safety and efficacy,
and produced a data integration demonstration that was
shown at the World Wide Web Conference in May 2007. The Group is
currently working on an Interest Group Note on URI best practices for
the health care and life sciences community.

The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group is
hereby extended until 31 December 2007 to enable them to complete
their Interest Group Note and continue providing a collaborative
discussion forum.  During this period the Team expects to develop
and distribute for Advisory Committee review one or more new charters
for groups in the health care and life sciences area.  We expect the
Interest Group to participate in the discussion of those proposed
charters.

More information about the Health Care and Life Sciences Interest
Group is available on the group's home page [1] and in the Group's
wiki [2].

This extension follows section 6.2.5 of the W3C Process Document:
  http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#charter-extension

For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead;
Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communication

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/
[2] http://esw.w3.org/topic/SemanticWebForLifeSciences

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