Most scientific developments are recorded in published papers and communicated via presentations. Scientific findings are presented within organizations, at conferences, via Webinars and other fora. Yet after delivery to an audience, important information is often left to wither on hard drives, document management systems and even the Web. Accessing the underlying data for scientific findings has been the Achilles Heel of researchers due to closed and proprietary systems. This presentation shows an alternative to sharing scientific information using a Linked Data approach.

1. Improving Scientific Information Sharing
by Fostering Reuse of Presentation Material
!
by Bernadette Hyland, David Wood, Luke Ruth, James Leigh
Conference for Semantics in
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Boston MA
http://www.iscb.org/cshals2014
Bernadette Hyland, CEO &
co-founder
@BernHyland
This Presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/
3RoundStones

7. What we’re currently doing
earns us a “No Pass“
• We spend considerable time preparing papers &
presentations
• Yet important ideas as presentations & papers
end up in a CMS or DMS without the data
• Data assessment and verification very
challenging
• My ideas show up in presentations … sometimes
with attribution … sometimes not
• I have no visibility on who is leveraging my
content

8. In March, a cancer researcher at Amgen
pharmaceutical company, based in Thousand Oaks,
California, reported that its scientists had repeated
experiments in 53 'landmark' papers, but managed to
confirm findings from only six of the
studies.
….. An internal survey at Bayer HealthCare, headquartered in
Leverkusen, Germany, found that inconsistencies between
published findings and the company’s own results caused delays or
cancellations in about two-thirds of projects.

9. Today’s Data on the Web

10. Linked Data on the Web
Person
Michael
a
Galway Airport
first name
Hausenblas
last name
collector
collected at
collected by
my data
measurement
...
a measurement
date
2011-01-01
or
value
units of measure
0
degrees
Centigrade

11. http://3roundstones.com

12. Callimachus
Enterprise
A data integration platform
Callimachus Enterprise supports distributed, in-browser
workflow creation, editing and publication using the
Linked Data model.

13. Helping organizations surface data and
collaborate either behind the firewall or
securely on the cloud.
!
Used by the Fortune 2000 and US Government
agencies to collect, annotate and reuse data
on the public Internet and within the enterprise.

14. Our approach …

15. Callimachus
Enterprise
Social features:!
•
•
•
OpenAnnotation tags
and categories for all
resources.
Timeline of user
activities.
Exposed as Linked
Data
User Profile
Document management:!
•
•
•
Documents & folders
associated with user
profiles.
Folders can contain
data, documents and
Callimachus
applications.
In-browser editing tools
are available for many
document types.

18. Document, Provenance &
Annotation Metadata in RDF Turtle
!
# Document!
</p/luke/3rs-improving-scientific-information-sharing-20131213.pdf> a </callimachus/
enterprise/1.3/types/PortableDocument>, foaf:Document !
!
;!ctrl:hasPage </p/luke/3rs-improving-scientific-informationsharing-20131213.pdf#page=1>!
!
; dcterms:created "2013-12-13T21:57:44.000Z"^^xsd:dateTime!
!
; dcterms:title "3RS Improving Scientific Information Sharing 20131212"!
!
; foaf:depiction </p/luke/3rs-improving-scientific-informationsharing-20131213.pdf?thumbnail=page%3D1>!
!
; prov:wasGeneratedBy </callimachus/changes/2014/02/12/t14427d585ddx793#provenance>!
!
; rdfs:label "3RS Improving Scientific Information Sharing 20131213" .!
!
# User!
!
<p/luke>!
calli:hasComponent <p/luke/3rs-improving-scientific-information-sharing-20131213.pdf>!
; calli:hasComponent <p/luke/ann1392238163872> .!
!
!
# Annotations for the Document!
</p/luke/ann1392238163872> a <callimachus/enterprise/1.3/types/Annotation>, oa:Annotation !
!
;!oa:annotatedAt "2014-02-12T20:49:51.651Z"^^xsd:DateTime!
!
; oa:annotatedBy </p/luke> !
!
; oa:hasBody </callimachus/enterprise/1.3/concepts/categories/education>!
!
; oa:hasBody </p/luke/ann1392238163872#body0>!
!
; oa:hasTarget </p/luke/3rs-improving-scientific-information-sharing-20131213.pdf> !
!
; oa:motivatedBy oa:tagging !
!
; prov:wasGeneratedBy </callimachus/changes/2014/02/12/
t14427d585ddx2510#provenance> .!

19. You Can Upload:
•
PDF files (presentations or documents)
•
Text documents
•
Image files (.png, .jpg, .gif, .svg)
•
HTML files, CSS stylesheets, JavaScript files
•
RDF data! (Turtle, N3, RDF/XML)
Developers can also create Linked Data applications!

20. Get Callimachus 1.3
callimachusproject.org
3roundstones.com
Open Source
Commercially
supported

21. Use a Linked Data
approach to
share scientific
findings
Bernadette Hyland
bhyland@3RoundStones.com
@BernHyland Direct +1-571-331-3758

22. Structured data on the Web
David Wood
Marsha Zaidman
Luke Ruth
WITH Michael Hausenblas
FOREWORD BY Tim Berners-Lee
MANNING
http://LinkedDataDeveloper.com

23. shared innovation™
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