NCBO Webinar: Biotea, delivering the semantic infrastructure for PubMed Central - Feb. 6 at 10am PST

The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Alexander Garcia from Florida
State University on "Biotea, delivering the semantic infrastructure for
PubMed Central" at 10:00am PST, Wednesday, Feb. 6.  Below is information on
how to join the online meeting via WebEx and accompanying teleconference.
For the full schedule of the NCBO Webinar presentations see:
http://www.bioontology.org/webinar-series.


ABSTRACT:
The Web has succeeded as a dissemination platform for scientific and
non-scientific papers, news, and communication in general; however, most of
that information remains locked up in discrete documents, which are poorly
interconnected to one another, and to the Web itself. The connectivity
tissue provided by RDF technology and the Social Web have barely made an
impact on scientific communication.

We present our approach to scholarly communication within the context of
the Semantic Web, which entails understanding the research paper as an
interface to the Web of Data. We have semantically processed the full-text,
open-access subset of PubMed Central. Our RDF model and resulting dataset
make extensive reuse of existing ontologies and semantic enrichment
services. We expose our model, services, prototype, and datasets at
http://biotea.idiginfo.org/

The semantic processing for biomedical literature that we present in this
paper embeds documents in the Web of Data and facilitates the execution of
concept-based queries over the entire digital library. Moreover, our
approach delivers a flexible and adaptable semantic infrastructure for
digital libraries; it is applicable independently of the business model of
the publisher. Our model delivers a semantically rich and highly linked
dataset with self-describing content so that software can make effective
use of it.


SPEAKER BIO:
Alexander Garcia is currently working on semantic web technologies in
digital libraries in the biomedical domain. Alexander has extensive
experience in ontology and semantic web engineering. Alexander has been
working in Translational Research, Knowledge Management and Ontology
Engineering since 2007; he has held post doctoral positions at I2R
(Singapore) as well as at Uni-Bremen (Germany). Alexander has several
journal and conference papers as well as book chapters. He has chaired
workshops such as OCAS @ ISWC 2011 (Ontologies Coming of Age), ORES @ ESWC
2010 (Ontology Repositories and Editors), Sepublica 2011 @ ESWC.


WEBEX DETAILS:
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Meeting information
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Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Time: 10:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (San Francisco, GMT-08:00)


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Meeting Number: 925 343 903
Meeting Password: ncbo


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Outreach Coordinator
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology
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