Semantic Resources

1. W3C Semantic Web
Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) Interest Group

"The mission of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group, part of the Semantic Web Activity, is to develop, advocate for, and support the use of Semantic Web technologies for biological science, translational medicine and health care. These domains stand to gain tremendous benefit by adoption of Semantic Web technologies, as they depend on the interoperability of information from many domains and processes for efficient decision support."

b.  W3C Semantic Web FAQ

c.  W3C Semantic Web: Prototype Knowledge Base for Life Sciences

"The prototype we describe is a biomedical knowledge base, constructed for a demonstration at Banff WWW2007 , that integrates 15 distinct data sources using currently available Semantic Web technologies such as the W3C standard Web Ontology Language [OWL] and Resource Description Framework [RDF]. This report outlines which resources were integrated, how the knowledge base was constructed using free and open source triple store technology, how it can be queried using the W3C Recommended RDF query language SPARQL [SPARQL], and what resources and inferences are involved in answering complex queries. While the utility of the knowledge base is illustrated by identifying a set of genes involved in Alzheimer's Disease, the approach described here can be applied to any use case that integrates data from multiple domains."

2. Download Semantic MediaWiki
"Semantic MediaWiki is a module to the MediaWiki software (powering Wikipedia), which extends the Wiki with ideas from the Semantic Web. We focus on usability and tight integration. For details, see http://semantic-mediawiki.org"


3. Papers on using Semantic Media Wiki

Using a Semantic MediaWiki to Interact with a Knowledge Based Infrustructure

Millard, I., Jaffri, A., Glaser, H. and Rodriguez-Castro, B. (2006) Using a Semantic MediaWiki to Interact with a Knowledge Based Infrustructure. In: 15th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, 2nd - 6th October 2006, Podebrady, Czech Republic.

Wikipedia and the Semantic Web - The Missing Links
In Proceedings of Wikimania 2005 - The First International Wikimedia Conference. Wikimedia Foundation, July 2005.