1. BioRDF Task Force

2. BioRDF Activities
Explore the effectiveness of current tools for making data available as RDF/OWL
Build a life sciences demo that spans from bench to bedside using RDF/OWL to help scientist better understand the value of the Semantic Web
Document our finding to help accelerate the adoption of the Semantic Web by others

3. Tool Assessment

4. Life Sciences Demo Created a knowledge base for Alzheimer’s Disease
Details during Alan’s talk

5. Presentations WWW2007 Demo ISMB 2007 Demo
ISMB BioOntology SIG Poster 2007
Society for Neuroscience Poster Nov 2007
Bridging Pharma and IT
Drug Discovery Technology of Innovative Therapeutics
Bio-IT World
Modern Drug Discovery and Development Summit
Massachusetts Biotechnology Panel
eScience Institute; RDF, Ontologies and Meta-Data Workshop
Systems Biology Conference
Semantic Web Gathering

6. Documents
SenseLab conversion
Guide for KB
URI note

7. BioRDF Participants
John Barkley (NIST), Olivier Bodenreider (NLM), Bill Bug (Drexel), Kei Cheung (Yale University), Tim Clark (MGH), Don Doherty (Brainstage Research), Michel Dumontier (Carlton University), Ray Hookaway (HP), Vipul Kashyap (Partners), June Kinoshita (AlzForum), Joanne Luciano (Mitre), Scott Marshall (University of Amsterdam), Eric Neumann (Clinical Semantics), Eric Prud’hommeaux (W3C), Daniel Rubin (Stanford University), Jonathan Rees (Creative Commons), Alan Ruttenburg (Creative Commons), Matthias Samwald (Medical University of Vienna), Andy Seaborne (HP), Karen Skinner (NIH), Susie Stephens (Lilly), Elizabeth Wu (AlzForum).

8. Summary Brought domain experts together
Learnt about Semantic Web technologies and tools
Created a contiguous ontology
Working on documents, e.g. URI note