Re: HCLS chartering/next steps Thur 26 May

Hi,

I see myself as more involved in the next incarnation of the charter ;)
Unfortunately, today is a travel day and I cannot attend the conference
call.

I have two questions/ideas, which don't really map to the current
sub-groups, but just in case they ring some bell:

-) Is the HCLS exclusively oriented on HeathCare ? (that is, is the "and" in
Heath Care and Life Sciences IG and AND or an OR ?). Here in Rothamsted, we
are just starting to evaluate the Ecological/Agricultural/Environmental
connections to Life Sciences. Does this fall into the remit of the IG group
?

-) Does the evaluation/ coordination of development of systems which link
information representation and analysis side fall within the remit of the IG
? I think interfaces to linked data, as well as tools which can analyze
linked data are important to improve the acceptance of Semantic Web
technologies in the Life Sciences.

ciao,
Andrea
 



Il giorno 24/mag/2011, alle ore 04.04, Eric Prud'hommeaux ha scritto:

> Hi all, as some of you reallize, the charter ends at the end of this
> month. I've been polling around to see what alternative formulations
> would give us the most resources and impact. In the process, I wrote
> up some of our high-level use cases (elevator speeches) to help us
> approach the relevant parties in pharmas, health services and
> research: <http://www.w3.org/2011/05/HCLSIGUseCases>.
> 
> I'd like to discuss the landscape and potential strategies with the
> community. I'd particularly like to invite those who have been active
> or see themselves as being active in the next incarnation of the group.
> We'll discuss the current, fairly conservative draft charter
> <http://www.w3.org/2011/05/HCLSIGCharter-proposal>, as well as ways to
> optimize both its message and the paths for dissemination. An example
> of a messaging alternative would be to characterize the HCLS IG work
> in terms of e.g. overarching translational medicine use cases:
> "
>  The W3C Semantic Web in Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group
>  focuses on translational medicine use cases. The group will continue
>  the aggregation of cutting edge and traditional scientific knowledge
>  to meet use cases for researchers, care givers, patients and
>  regulatory agencies. Due to the scope and diversity of expertise
>  required to meet translational needs, the HCLS IG work is broken
>  down into discrete task forces focused on particular data
>  acquisition, modeling and integration requirements:
> 
>  Terminology - identifying and integrating identifiers for biological
>  processes, gross anatomy and medical procedures to promote
>  unification of domain data.
> 
>  LODD - curation of compounds, clinical trials and outcomes.
> 
>  BioRDF - modeling of biological processes and actors.
> 
>  Scientific Discourse - representation and tracking of the changing
>  landscape of scientific knowledge and the driving theora and
>  experiments.
> 
>  Translational Medicine - the oversight and high-level ontology that
>  connects these disciplines together in order to meet immediate and
>  long term needs from pharma, health care and other vested parties.
> "
> . Perhaps you all have some other ideas about how to tell a story
> about our work which will serve to both draw people to our work and
> our products and to help already interested parties find the task
> forces which interest them. I of course want to draw an optimal
> balance between doing work which motivates the participants and
> focusing on tasks which will accelerate education and adoption by
> important organizations.
> 
> I'm sure you are all aware of my preference for technical work, but I
> feel that this outreach can make us all ultimately more effective. I
> will use the Thursday 26 May HCLS slot (11:00 EDT) to reach out to the
> current HCLS IG community, and whomever else you folks elect to bring
> along. Of course, I'll reserve extra teleconference slots, but please
> RSVP to me privately so I can make a guess at how many ports to
> reserve. Also, please provide what feedback you can before the
> conference. Anything we take care of before will make the meeting more
> efficient.
> 
> Conference Details
> 
> Date of Call: Thursday, May 26, 2011
> Time of Call: 11:00 am Eastern Time, 4 pm UK, 5 pm CET
> Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge, MA)
> [Note: limited access to European dial in numbers below]
> Dial-In #: +33.4.26.46.79.03 (Nice, France)
> Dial-In #: +44.203.318.0479 (Bristol, UK)
> Participant Access Code: 4257 ("HCLS")
> IRC Channel: irc.w3.org port 6665 channel #HCLS (see W3C IRC page for
> details, or see Web IRC), Quick Start: Use
> http://www.mibbit.com/chat/?server=irc.w3.org:6665&channel=%23hcls for
> IRC access.
> Duration: ~1 hour
> Convener: Eric Prud'hommeaux
> Scribe: TBD
> 
> HCLS IG charter/strategy discussion
> -- 
> -ericP
> 

Andrea Splendiani
Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
Centre for Mathematical and Computational Biology
+44(0)1582 763133 ext 2004
andrea.splendiani@bbsrc.ac.uk

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