- From: Dwight Hines <dwighthines@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:02:22 -0400
- To: "M.Daquin" <M.Daquin@open.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Giovanni Tummarello" <giovanni.tummarello@deri.org>, "David Huynh" <dfhuynh@alum.mit.edu>, <public-lod@w3.org>, <semantic-web@w3c.org>
I've been following the posts a little, while downloading excel format data on emergency medical services across the US. We need to have these data examined in forty eleven different ways and we need to know what peculiar combinations exist for different locations to keep people alive. It seems to me that these data sets that are available for downloading, as long as you agree to a few restrictions to protect privacy and understand these data are not perfect, yet, and analyses of your choice. Look, I'm including below the notice sent out today to the NEMSiS list, and would like to know if you decide to tackle the data with freebase, how are you doing it, and where you will post your results. The reality now is that we need what the members of the list are working on applied to these data sets. The data sets, and their natural relationship data sets are going to continue to grow. Dwight Hines St. Augustine, Florida ================= "Greetings from the NEMSIS Technical Assistance Center: We are pleased to announce that the NEMSIS National Reporting System based upon the National EMS Data Base is available! The web-based system can be found on the NEMSIS web site (www.nemsis.org) under the NEMSIS Reporting tab (click on “National Reports”). We invite you to visit and use the reports and, most importantly, provide us feedback regarding their usefulness. We are striving to provide you the best possible product and need to hear from you to enhance the impact of the national reports on the EMS system as a whole. It should be noted that there are limitations to the data that are available. First, these data are not “population-based” and do not represent conditions of the nation or any individual state submitting data to NEMSIS (i.e., most states currently submit a portion of all state EMS runs). Second, the data are not formally “cleaned” and, therefore, represent the information as submitted by each state. Although basic cleaning is completed by the NEMSIS TAC, some data inconsistencies are retained to aid states with quality assessments. We welcome you to use and become familiar with the national reports. As the data base grows, so will the usefulness and validity of the National EMS Data Base." David J. Owens Program Director National EMS Information System University of Utah - Department of Pediatrics Intermountain Injury Control Research Center 295 Chipeta Way PO Box 581289 Salt Lake City, Utah 84158-1289 Phone: (801) 585 1631 Fax: (801) 581-8686 david.owens@hsc.utah.edu The NEMSIS Technical Assistance Center exists to standardize data collection and develop a national registry to facilitate evaluation of emergency medical services. On Aug 20, 2008, at 1:32 PM, M.Daquin wrote: > >>> The trouble is of course when the whole web is the database, it's >>> hard to >>> suggest those relationships (connections) for a set of entities. >>> How might >>> one solve that problem? I suppose something like Swoogle can >>> help. Is that >>> what Tabulator uses to know what data is on the SW? >>> >>> David > >
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