Participation of LarKC partners in standards activities
- USFD (data: Hamish Cunningham)
OASIS: Unstructured Information Management working group (founding member)
?AstraZeneca (data: Bo Andersson)
W3C: HCLS interest group, LODD: Linking Open Drug Data initiative
LODD and the use cases 7a and 7b have a common interest in information about drugs that is available on the Web. The sources of data range from impacts of the drugs on gene expression, through to the results of clinical trials. Might be of interest with some kind of collaboration on collection and transforming this data into RDF for LODD and LLD.
For the longer term, the work of SWANSIOC might be of interest, which integrates the existing RDF vocabulary SIOC (online social communities) and SWAN (biomedical knowledge base). The SWANSIOC project, also within the context of the HCLS interest group, proposes to provide a Semantic Web platform for biomedical discourse which can, over time, evolve into a more general facility for scientific discourse, and which is linked to key biological categories specified by ontologies. Discourse categories should include research questions, scientific assertions or claims, hypotheses, comments and discussion, and evidence. Biological categories would likely include such categories as genes, proteins, antibodies, animal models, laboratory protocols, biological processes, disease classifications, user-generated taxonomies, and bibliographic references.
?CycEurope (data: Marko Grobelnik)
W3C: RIF working group
The mission of the RIF working group is to produce W3C recommendations for rules interchange. Rules are relevant for LarKC as a crucial form of declarative knowledge representation. Currently no W3C standard exists for rules on the Semantic Web. Some proposals have been made, but combining rules with existing Semantic Web standards (ie: OWL) while staying within reasonable computational characteristics is not trivial.
- HLRS (data: Georgina Gallizo)
HLRS is involved in the MPI standardization committee. MPI (message passing interface) is relevant to LarKC as one of the parallel programming models to be consider inside the plugins and maybe for communication between the plugins in certain cases. Available implementations of MPI in Java programming language will be considered for LarKC.
HLRS is involved in the GRAAP-WG on grid resource allocation. Relevance of the GRAAP-WG for LarKC is still to be analysed.
HLRS has no direct involvement, but monitors the SEM-RG on semantic Web technologies for grids. This group is relevant to LarKC for the semantic description of Grid resources, QoS parameters, etc. Potential further involvement is being analysed.
- STI Innsbruck (data: Mick Kerrigan)
W3C: RIF working group
The mission of the RIF working group is to produce W3C recommendations for rules interchange. Rules are relevant for LarKC as a crucial form of declarative knowledge representation. Currently no W3C standard exists for rules on the Semantic Web. Some proposals have been made, but combining rules with existing Semantic Web standards (ie: OWL) while staying within reasonable computational characteristics is not trivial.
OASIS: SEE Technical Committee
The mission of the SEE TC is to standardize the reference ontology and reference architecture for a Semantic Execution Environments (SEE) for Semantic Web Services.
OMG: SoaML
The SoaML submission to OMG provides a UML profile and metamodel for Services that enables services to be modeled with UML and Platform Specific Models created from these diagrams.
- CEFRIEL (data: Emanuele Della Valle)
W3C: Data Access working group: a streaming-data extension to SPARQL
CEFRIEL is evaluating to propose C-SPARQL to the Data Access WG at W3C in 2009. A first contribution should be ready in Spring 2009 and will be mainly focused on aggregation operators for C-SPARQL, while a second contribution concerning RDF streams as well as continuous SPARQL queries should be ready in Fall 2009.