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Open PHACTS wins European Linked Data Award
We are delighted to announce that Open PHACTS has been awarded first place in the Linked Open Data Award of the inaugural European Linked Data Contest (ELDC). An international jury of ambassadors from over 15 European countries elected Open PHACTS as the winner, judged by the following criteria:
Data Integration in a Big Data Context
Today I had the pleasure of visiting the Urban Big Data Centre (UDBC) to give a seminar on Data Integration in a Big Data context (slides below). The idea for the seminar came about due to my collaboration with Nick Bailey (Associate Director of the UBDC) in the Administrative Research Data Centre for Scotland (ADRC-S).
W3C HCLS Dataset Descriptions Profile Published
After 3 years hard work, countless telephone conferences, issues and drafts, the W3C Health Cara and Life Sciences Community Group (HCLS) have finally published their community profile for describing datasets. The profile deals with different versions of a dataset with each version being published in multiple formats. Below is the announcement from the W3C.
The Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group has published a Group Note of Dataset Descriptions: HCLS Community Profile. Access to consistent, high-quality metadata is critical to finding, understanding, and reusing scientific data. This document describes a consensus among participating stakeholders in the Health Care and the Life Sciences domain on the description of datasets using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This specification meets key functional requirements, reuses existing vocabularies to the extent that it is possible, and addresses elements of data description, versioning, provenance, discovery, exchange, query, and retrieval. Learn more about the Data Activity.
SICSA Databases for the Environmental and Social Sciences
Today I attended the SICSA Databases for the Environmental and Social Sciences event hosted by Andy Cobley from the University of Dundee. I gave the below talk on the challenges of linking data.
Many areas of scientific discovery rely on combining data from multiples data sources. However there are many challenges in linking data. This presentation highlights these challenges in the context of using Linked Data for environmental and social science databases.
New Open PHACTS Explorer Released
The Open PHACTS Explorer has a shiny new interface that provides a web based application for searching and exploring the data in the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform. The video below (10 minutes) will demonstrate how to use the new Explorer and give you an overview of its features.
SICSA DEMOFest Video
Brief one minute video recorded at SICSA DEMOFest2014 of me describing my research and the Open PHACTS Discovery Platform.
SICSA DEMOfest 2014
Today I will be demonstrating the Discovery Platform from the Open PHACTS project at the SICSA DEMOfest in the Informatics Forum, Edinburgh. I will be in the Health and Life Sciences track. Pop over and chat to me if you are about.
CIM Best Paper
Our paper (Hussain et al., 2014) presenting a framework for terminology mappings won one of two best paper awards at the First Workshop on Context, Interpretation and Meaning (CIM2014). The other award went to the paper by Amy Guy from the University of Edinburgh.
ISWC2014 In-use Paper
Slides for my ISWC2014 In-use track paper (Batchelor et al., 2014) are available below.
ISWC 2014
ISWC 2014 is taking place on the shores of Lake Garda, Italy. However, I won’t have much time to relax on the lake. Look out for my tweets (@gray_alasdair).
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About Me
I'm an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University. My research focuses on linking datasets. Read more