Re: Evidence-based healthcare ontology and Cochrane systematic Reviews - A linked data project

Hi Chris,

This is very exciting news! I am a Comparative Effectiveness Research 
scholar and see many interesting possibilities for Cochrane data as well 
as other datasets with systematic reviews (e.g., OHSU's Drug 
Effectiveness Review Project).

Anita DeWaard (CC'd) is co-chair of the Scientific Discourse task force. 
Please follow up with her regarding giving a talk at a regular 
teleconference.

I will look over your links in detail in a week after some deadlines are 
met.

kind regards,
-Rich

Richard Boyce, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Scholar, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program
University of Pittsburgh
rdb20@pitt.edu
412-648-6768



On 05/23/2012 06:08 AM, Chris Mavergames wrote:
> Hello W3C Semantic Web HCLSIG,
>
> My name is Chris Mavergames and I'm the Director of Web Development for
> The Cochrane Collaboration (www.cochrane.org<http://www.cochrane.org>
> <http://www.cochrane.org>), an international, non-profit healthcare
> research organisation dedicated to producing systematic reviews of
> healthcare interventions and the best-available evidence for healthcare
> decision-making for clinicians, patients, policy-makers and others
> working in healthcare delivery. Our resource, The Cochrane Library
> (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com), includes the Cochrane Database of
> Systematic Reviews
> (http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#CDSR),
> with more than 5,000 systematic reviews, and CENTRAL (Cochrane Central
> Register of Controlled Trials -
> http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/view/0/AboutTheCochraneLibrary.html#CENTRAL),
> which contains nearly 700,000 records of clinical trials and studies.
>
> About a year ago, we began exploring how we could use semantic web and
> linked data technologies to provide better links between our own
> datasets and to make our data interoperable with other datasets in the
> bio-medical domain. In this project, we made an initial, first draft
> ontology by modeling Cochrane systematic reviews (in OWL, RDFS) which
> include core concepts in evidence-based health care. Early on we
> recognized that linking studies to Reviews offered many opportunities
> and benefits but also that linking to other datasets such as Drugbank,
> one of the resources in linkedlifedata.com<http://linkedlifedata.com>
> (http://linkedlifedata.com/sources)
> <http://linkedlifedata.com/sources%29>  as well as using ontologies like
> the OCRe (http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/1076)
> <http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/1076%29>  could allow for
> even more possibilities in making our content more accessible, useful
> and interoperable.
>
> More information about our project can be found in the following 2
> presentations:
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/mavergames/linked-data-and-cochrane-reviews-12936733
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/mavergames/sustainability-and-cochrane-reviews-how-technology-can-help-12207716
>
>
> Currently, our goal is to complete our ontology of systematic reviews
> and look to broaden it to include all the concepts in the domain and
> create an evidence-based healthcare ontology. Michel Dumontier suggested
> that perhaps the "Scientific Discourse Task Force" might be the best
> place to discuss this project. May I suggest that we arrange a call so
> that I can discuss our project in more detail with that or one of the
> other task forces?
>
> In addition, is anyone in the HCLSIG involved in the efforts to create
> health&  medical extensions to Schema.org?
> (http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/MedicalHealthProposal)
> <http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/MedicalHealthProposal%29>
>
> Thanks, in advance, for your input.
>
> Best regards,
> Chris Mavergames
>


-- 
Richard Boyce, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
Scholar, Comparative Effectiveness Research Program
University of Pittsburgh
rdb20@pitt.edu
412-648-6768

Received on Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:01:14 UTC