Semantic resources project/SWAN Resource

Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine (SWAN) is a high-quality hand-curated collection of scientific statements, discursive claims, life science entities, and citations. SWAN is tied together by an ontology which is integrated with existing ontologies for Agents (FOAF) and Communities (SIOC). SWAN is an important resource for scientists who wish to understand the the concepts and motivations behind recent Alzheimer's disease research. The SWAN Alzheimer Knowledge Base website (http://hypothesis.alzforum.org) allows access to this resource through a web interface, and the underlying knowledge is already semantically modeled.

This project includes a "SWAN resource," which consists of two components. The first component of the SWAN resource is the export and packaging of the existing SWAN Knowledge Base statements into a form suitable for export and use to other scientific communities (SCF) and Neurocommons users. The second component of the SWAN resource is the generalization of the editing and viewing software for SWAN, to allow other SCF-based communities to author their own knowledge bases integrated with the SWAN ontology.

This resource will allow reuse, in conjunction with other data, of scientific discussion of an important disease, and it will allow the editors and users of SWAN to integrate entities from Neurocommons into their statements about Alzheimer's disease.

SWAN Knowledge Base
We are planning to push the resources from SWAN or SCF back into a Neurocommons bundle.

SWAN Conversion
We are building a tool to convert an existing SWAN KB export, which is presented in an older ("1.0") ontology, into the newer SWAN 1.2 Ontology.


 * Notes on SWAN 1.0/1.2 Conversion
 * Validation rules for SWAN 1.2
 * Questions for Paolo about SWAN

= Notes & External Content =

/Brainstorming