Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences

Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group

Introduction

The mission of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, part of the Semantic Web Activity, is to develop, advocate for, and support the use of Semantic Web technologies for biological science, translational medicine and health care. These domains stand to gain tremendous benefit by adoption of Semantic Web technologies, as they depend on the interoperability of information from many domains and processes for efficient decision support.

The group will:

• Document use cases to aid individuals in understanding the business and technical benefits of using Semantic Web technologies.
• Document guidelines to accelerate the adoption of the technology.
• Implement a selection of the use cases as proof-of-concept demonstrations.
• Explore the possibility of developing high level vocabularies.
• Disseminate information about the group's work at government, industry, and academic events./.../