Face-to-Face W3C HCLSIG Meeting, DRAFT Agenda:

Dates: Jan 25-26, 2006
Location: Cambridge, MA

Day 1:

Coffee 7:45 – 8:15 am

Welcome, Review of Agenda, Introductions

8:15-8:45

Vision: Bench to Bedside- What is the role of Semantic Web, Eric Neumann and Tonya Hongsermeier

8: 45- 10am

Coffee 10am- 10:15

Semantic Web Primer – moderated by Brian Gilman

10:15-noon

• History: the RDF Story
• Semantic Web Technologies and Role in HCLS Spectrum
  • Universal Resource Identifiers and Properties; How do we describe things on the web
  • Information Aggregation/Integration: ie News Feeds (RSS), Piggy Bank (browser based aggregation)
  • Searching on the Semantic Web: ie SPARQL Language
  • Ontology Web Language (OWL): concepts and their relations, beyond “is-a”
• Review of Currently Available Semantic Web Tools and Resources
  • Systems that can read RDF (ie JENA, CWM)
  • Systems that can store RDF (ie ORACLE, SESAME, Kowari)
  • Systems that can reason over RDF (ie Agents, JENA, CEREBRA, SWOOP)
• Vocabularies in Healthcare Life-sciences Domain moving toward OWL, ie: SNOMED, NCI Metathesaurus, FMA, UMLS, Geneontology, OBO, RXNorm

Lunch noon-1:15pm

Bench to Bedside: Example Use Cases, Issues and Areas of Discussion

1:15-5:00

• Applying semantics and ontologies to experimental data
• Disease, BioMarkers and Annotation
• Aggregation of Scientific literature
• Omics and Integrating Complex Data

Coffee 3:15-3:30

• Biopax Pathway Knowledge
• BioMedical Ontologies
• Terminological Federation; Federating OWL Ontologies
• HealthCare: Personalized medicine and the Electronic Health Record

DINNER – On Your Own

Day 2:

Coffee and Pastries at 8 AM

From technical to topical domains – Define Break-out Groups

Moderated by Eric Neumann and Tonya Hongsermeier, Groups defined interactively
8:30 – 9:00

Breakout Sessions 9:00 – 10:30

Coffee 10:30 – 10:45

Reconvene and Report from Breakout Groups Moderated by Eric Neumann and Tonya Hongsermeier

--Define Activities and Action Items

10:45 – 12:30

Lunch 12:30-1:30

Making the Case for the Semantic Web – Moderated Discussion with Use Cases, Eric Neumann and Tonya Hongsermeier

1:30 – 3:15 pm

• Defining the critical inflection points: the Network Effect
• Leveling the playing field for Discovery Informatics – Eric Neumann
• Business Case for Clinical Decision Support – Tonya Hongsermeier
• Reducing the cost of Knowledge Acquisition, Data Integration, and Translational Medicine
• Possible value points (ROI) of SW in 1, 3, 6 years in our respective areas

Coffee 3:15 – 3:30

Refining the Action Plan and Wrap-Up

3:30 – 5:00

• Create 2006 activities list (demonstrations, guiding examples, ontology bridges, core vocab, etc)
• Define sign-on commitment from participants
• Define deliverable and time frames
• Draft HCLS RoadMap to be co-developed
• Next meeting time frame, location, meeting frequency, logistics
• Staying in Contact: TC, WIKI, mailing list, etc
• Adjournement

Meeting Ends

5:00 PM