Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences

Hi,

It would be interesting to setup a list of companies which makes a mission-critical use of semantic-web technologies.
This could start to be some good evidence on the impact of these technologies.
Does anybody knows if such a list exists ?
STI people have a list of Semantic Web companies, but I was thinking about something smaller and more focused.

best,
Andrea

Il giorno 22/dic/2011, alle ore 15.25, Waard, Anita de A (ELS-NYC) ha scritto:

> Oliver,
> 
> Elsevier uses semantic technologies (i.e. OWL ontologies, a Linked Data Repository, metadata in RDF) throughout all of our content management, search and annotation systems. If OWL/RDF were to evaporate tomorrow, our products (including the Cell and other cell biology publications) wouldn't work - it's as simple as that. Is that enough evidence? Let me know if you need something more formal. 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> - Anita.  
> 
> Anita de Waard
> Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs
> http://elsatglabs.com/labs/anita/
> a.dewaard@elsevier.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Splendiani (RRes-Roth) [mailto:andrea.splendiani@rothamsted.ac.uk]
> Sent: Thu 12/22/2011 10:09
> To: Oliver Ruebenacker
> Cc: public-semweb-lifesci
> Subject: Re: Evidence of Significance of Semantic Web for Life Sciences
> 
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> I think it's hard to find this form of "breakthrough evidence" and this may even be counterproductive to convince people.
> If you present a high-level, breakthrough result (say, we save lives), than you leave two open questions:
> - how much of this is dependent on the computational support ?
> - ok, they used semantic web technologies, could we use something else ?
> 
> Another way to go would be to measure results over resources (benefits is economic) or adoption (benefit is potential for economies of scale).
> There is a wide range of sources to cite about this out of the biomedical world, from companies to governments.
> 
> Look for "Biomedical Semantics in the Semantic Web" in JBS, we write something about adoption, you may find some link/inspiration there.
> 
> ciao,
> Andrea
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Il giorno 21/dic/2011, alle ore 16.39, Oliver Ruebenacker ha scritto:
> 
>>    Hello,
>> 
>> I am looking for evidence I can quote to convince non-experts of the
>> significance of applying Semantic Web to biomedical research,
>> especially computational cell biology.
>> 
>> I need a recorded public statement from a source recognizable as
>> authoritative to a non-expert: e.g. could be from a relevant
>> government agency, a well-known research institution (including major
>> grad schools and companies), a well-known (i.e. well-known outside the
>> field) expert, some one where a brief look at the biography
>> immediately suggests he or she is an authority, some one quoted in
>> major media, etc.
>> 
>> Significance could mean abstract things like advancing science and
>> health care, but even better would be tangible things like: saves
>> lives, saves money, cures cancer/malaria/AIDS, creates jobs, etc.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!
>> 
>>    Take care
>>    Oliver
>> 
>> -- 
>> Oliver Ruebenacker, Computational Cell Biologist
>> Virtual Cell (http://vcell.org)
>> SBPAX: Turning Bio Knowledge into Math Models (http://www.sbpax.org)
>> http://www.oliver.curiousworld.org
>> 
> 
> 
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