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***** SORRY FOR CROSS-POSTING ******* *** 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS *** MedInfo 2007 Workshop: MedSemWeb 2007 What Semantics Do We Need for A Semantic Web for Medicine? to be held in conjunction with MedInfo 2007 URL: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~patty/MedInfo2007/MedInfo%202007%20Workshop%20CFP .html 19th August 2007, Brisbane, Australia Workshop Chairs: Patty Kostkova, City ehealth Research Centre, Institute of Health Sciences, City University, London, UK Robert Stevens, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK The objective of this workshop is to provide an informal forum for researchers from academia, industry and health care institutions to present their work on semantic resources related to healthcare, to share their experience in order to bridge the gap between academic ontology research and healthcare project needs. We wish to explore the issues surrounding: The different kinds of users of a semantic web for Healthcare for Life Sciences/Medicine; what kinds of semantic resources suit each user group and their needs? Do ontologies make any difference to clinical practice and patient care? How can we better meet the clinical needs? What level of ontological formality suit different user and computational needs? The current research and massive financial investments into eHealth in countries around the world to enable knowledge sharing across geographical location, instant dissemination of the latest clinical evidence and seamless integration of the clinical databases with patient electronic records have shown partial success, however, the full integration at semantic level and interoperability across organisations and knowledge sources have yet not been achieved. Formal ontologies, thesauri, classification schemes, etc. will be essential components that enable this vision as they describe, in various ways, the entities and knowledge found in Web resources. The domain has developed such semantic resources as Go, Mesh, Snomed CT, etc. The W3C has recommended languages and vocabularies such as OWL, RDF, RDFS, and proposal such as SKOS, etc. as representations for semantic resources, but how do communities choose a formalism and migrate from one to another? What are the costs and benefits? When do we need to choose a particular kind of representation? Submission Date: 9th July 2007 Notification Date: 23rd July 2007 Camera Ready Date: 30th July 2007 Workshop Date: 19th August 2007 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.13/843 - Release Date: 10/06/2007 13:39 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.14/884 - Release Date: 02/07/2007 15:35
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