NBIC PhD Course
on
Managing Life Science Information (2nd edition)
Course coordinators: Marco Roos, Scott Marshall
Date:
17-21 October 2011 (one week of tutorials) and a final workshop
on
Friday 28 October 2011 to discuss project results
Location: Science Park, Amsterdam
Registration:
http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/enrolment/
Website: http://www.nbic.nl/education/nbic-phd-school/course-schedule/managing-life-science-information/
Did
you
ever suspect that the data that you need is somewhere but
neither discoverable nor accessible?
Have you ever produced valuable
data that nobody can use anymore, including yourself?
Have you ever
wondered how to create a federation of distributed data sources?
If you
do not want your data to end up in a data graveyard, and for
many other
information management issues, we have organised a course for
you.
In this course we will teach you methods to make data shareable
and
self-describing.
You will learn how:
- the 'Linked Data' principle
works and
how it can be applied for 'meaningful' data integration
- to expose your local data
(including
relational databases) for use in other systems.
- Web Services can be used to
analyse
data from anywhere.
- text mining can be applied to
link
resources such as biobanks.
- human knowledge can be made
computable
and associated with data.
- to make your data publishable
artifacts for which you can get scientific credit.
- to use tools such as MolGenis,
Taverna, SPARQL,
D2RQ,
SWObjects,
NCBO's
BioPortal, Anni,
LarKC (Large
Knowledge
Collider).
- to collaboratively solve an
information management problem
Program
(tentative)
Monday:
Introduction by leading Semantic Web expert Prof. Dr. Frank
van
Harmelen; Hands-on with RDF and SPARQL (Scott Marshall)
Tuesday:
XML, RDF, Minimal information models, and exposing data from
local
databases (Scott Marshall); hands-on with MolGenis (Erik Roos)
Wednesday:
Data integration with Web Services (Katy Wolstencroft);
hands-on with
Taverna (Katherine Wolstencroft)
Thursday:
Knowledge management and nano-publication (Andrew Gibson);
hands-on
federated queries with SWObjects (Scott Marshall)
Friday:
Text mining for linking biobanks and hands-on with Anni (Marco
Roos,
Kristina Hettne); Hands-on with LarKC (Spyros Kotoulas);
DRINKS!!!
--
Dr. Celia W.G. van Gelder
Coordinator Education CMBI
Projectleader Education NBIC
tel. +31-(0)24-3666120
e-mail: C.vanGelder@cmbi.ru.nl
websites: www.cmbi.ru.nl, www.nbic.nl
Postal address:
CMBI 260
Radboud University Nijmegen-Medical Centre /NCMLS
PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen
The Netherlands