Emerging practices for mapping and linking life sciences data using RDF — A case series

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Linked Open Data for Healthcare Professionals

“…The area of drug related data has not been omitted. In [9], authors presented 14 questions and answers as a recommendation for mapping and linking life sciences data using RDF based on several use cases. One of the important issues addressed is that most data should be described as an instance of an ontological class where possible.…”

“…In particular, most data is represented as ontological classes instead of instances. This is not a recommended practice [9]. Since each thing is represented as a class it is not possible to determine its semantic type with the standardized rdf:type property.…”

MIM: A Minimum Information Model vocabulary and framework for Scientific Linked Data

“…Report Generating Rules The task of aligning data with a checklist is only feasible by hand annotation for small-scale data. Scientific Linked Data is typically large scale and inconsistently represented across data sets [20]. To retrospectively align existing data with MICs we need to automate this process.…”

“…Secondly, by performing our own extraction we gain insight into how the entire process of generating and publishing Linked Data impacts our MIC assessment. Scientific data sources are rarely created initially as Linked Data resources; instead a Linked Data representation is typically generated from a primary existing source [20]. As such our case study is representative of much of the existing scientific data available on the Web of Data.…”

“…The authors in [20] have reviewed recent efforts of the Health Care and Life Sciences Special Interests Group (HCLS IG) in publishing a number of data sets as Linked Data resources. In doing so the authors make a series of recommendations to improve the quality and utility of scientific Linked Data.…”