On the value of data: how can we measure the relative “value” of two data assets? I have sketched some reflexions here: https://lnkd.in/e9XN6wH Please feel free to contribute. I’ll share back if something valuable comes out of it! #data #knowledgebase #datacuration #dataquality
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Principle of Health Interoperability (SNOMED CT, HL7 and FHIR) Tim Benson and Grahame Grieve (3rd edition) The biomedical data landscape is very broad, and as such it presents many different data standards and terminologies. Nevertheless, as different areas of science and healthcare are converging, it is common for data practitioners to get in contact with data standards from related fields. For anybody coming from a bioinformatics background, it is usually hard to make a coherent map of healthcare standards. Many …
I have always felt a bit uneasy to say that I am working in “Knowledge Management”. “Knowledge” is such a big word, that I always wonder what my interlocutor (or reader) think “Knowledge Management” is. So I found myself recalling a conversation going like: “I am building a Knowledge Base” and receiving as an answer: “so you are building a database?”. The difference is intuitively obvious to me, but how can I simply explain it? Of course I could present …
SWAT4LS (Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences) will be held this year in Rome, Dec. 4th-7th. This year marks the 10th consecutive year for SWAT4LS, and this calls for a little retrospective on its history. That is this post, from my perspective as a co-organizer. I think the origin of the workshop can be traced to a Nettab workshop: A Semantic Web for Bioinformatics: Goals, Tools, Systems, Applications. The following year, Paolo Romano, who was organizing Nettab, suggested to have a …