Proceedings of SWAT4LS are out

The proceedings for SWAT4LS 2012 have been published on CEUR and accessible at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-952/.

SWAT4LS Aftermath

Thanks to everybody attending SWAT4LS this year.

We had about 100 participants over three days of hackathon, tutorials and workshop, where we had four keynotes 10 papers, 9 position papers and about 14 between posters and demos (unfortunately problems with wifi created problems for the poster session).

The prize for the best paper, courtesy of BMC, went to Despoina Magka (Ontology-Based Classification of Molecules: a Logic Programming Approach). The Nanopublication prize (best idea) went to Tomasz Adamusiak.

We will post on our website the presentations for talks and tutorials. We will also prepare proceedings in CEUR and open a call for a BMC JBMS thematic series.

In addition, we welcome feedback on SWAT4LS, as well as ideas for its evolution.

SWAT4LS Program news

We have a few last minute news at SWAT4LS:
UBC Pharma will join Ontotext in the industry session.
We will host a "nano publication" competition, that will award a prize in the closing ceremony (I can anticipate it will be trendy gadget...).
In the context of our collaboration with the Journal of Biomedical Semantics, we will have a best paper prize (full fee waiver).
Starting from this year (and explaining the delays on last year-s special issue) we will have a thematic series in the Journal of Biomedical Semantics (like a journal in journal), in collaboration with CSHALS.
Participants at the workshop will be invited to submit to the thematic series.
We are going to experiment including feedback at the workshop as part of the review process for these submissions.

Finally, more accepted papers (an posters!) will be announced soon!

The SWAT4LS 2012 Program is out!

The preliminary program of SWAT4LS 2012 is out!!!
(pending a few more contributions still to be formally accepted, including numerous posters).

To make organization easier, we are closing registrations on Sunday 25th November, and only accepting onsite registration at an increased rate after that!

Ann Marie Martin (IMI) to keynote at SWAT4LS

We are happy the announce that Ann Marie Martin (IMI) will be joining our keynotes for SWAT4LS 2012

Ann Marie Martin
Principal Scientific Manager, Knowledge Management
European Innovative Medicine Initiative

Joining Private and Public Forces to Boost Innovation in Healthcare
The Innovative Medicines Initiative and Knowledge Management

IMI is a public-private partnership between the European Union, represented by the European Commission, and the pharmaceutical industry, represented by the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). IMI’s total budget amounts to €2 billion. €1 billion is invested from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), which is matched by contributions from EFPIA and its member companies.
As output, IMI is currently funding 42 projects representing an investment of € 1.200 million (for a description http://www.imi.europa.eu/content/ongoing-projects). All projects have a knowledge management component and IMI has concluded a memorandum of understanding with CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium) a standards development organization well known within the Pharmaceutical industry to address the need to use both format and content standards in the projects. Furthermore some projects have specific knowledge management objectives including one project adopting specifically semantic web technologies: Open PHACTS.

Announcin the SWAT4LS Hackathon, 2012

The SWAT4LS Hackathon is taking shape. A preliminary program can be found at: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLS/SWAT4LS2012/Hackathon

Early registration deadline is open!

The early registration deadline to SWAT4LS is open, and will remain open until October 22nd.
If you are already planning to attend the workshop, please register at: http://swat4ls-2012.eventbrite.com or via the following form:

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