Some semantic web related activities

Work with semantic and linked data technologies

Some presentations concerning the semantic web and related technologies
- Ontologies: "What are they?" and "How do they work?"
- Introduction to RDF, Jena, SparQL and the "Semantic Web"
  - SIGUCCS 2009 Proceedings paper
  - SIGUCCS presentation slide set
- Introduction to the Semantic Web and Bio2RDF, the "semantic web atlas of postgenomic knowledge"

Installation of the Virtuoso Universal Server for use as a triplestore and SparQL endpoint. Also installed the GO, Bind, NCI-NC, and Reactome components downloaded from Bio2RDF.

Installation of a D2R gateway exposing a portion of the local Centralized Life Sciences Data (CLSD) service as Linked Data, and also via a SparQL endpoint.

Use of several Linked data clients, such as the Tabulator, the Explorator, Twinkle, RDF-Gravity, etc.

Explored several tools for searching PubMed: GOPubMed, Texflame, and the Enju Natural Language parser, for possible use on our CTSI hub.

Some musings:

Some other work:

Some scripts were written display semantic data using the Exhibit faceted browsing middleware from the MIT Simile project. An example MAY still be available here.