This workshop was held at TMF - www.tmf-ev.de - on the 29-30 April 2014.
For more information about the event, please contact Tom Hancocks - [email protected]
Workshop Overview
This covered the emerging Resource Description Framework (RDF) as a technology for describing, publishing and linking many types of data. RDF provides a common mechanism for data description, ontology integration and exploration using a common query language, SPARQL. For those working in the life sciences RDF offers a new approach for distributing and consuming biological data. This workshop provided an introduction to these technologies, practical experience and discussion around their use.
The workshop covered:
- How data is represented in RDF
- Relationship between ontologies and RDF
- Writing SPARQL queries for biological data
- Case Study: EMBL-EBI RDF Platform
Workshop Programme
| Time | Subject | Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | ||
| 12:00 | Welcome and introduction | Tom Hancocks |
| 12:15 | Semantic Web for beginners | Simon Jupp |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:45 | Participant introductions | All |
| 14:00 | Modelling data in RDF | Simon Jupp |
| 15:00 | Generating data in RDF | Simon Jupp |
| 15:45 | Break | |
| 16:15 | RDF databases | Simon Jupp |
| 17:15 | SPARQL querying | Simon Jupp |
| 18:15 | Discussion | All |
| 18:30 | End of day | |
| Day 2 | ||
| 09:30 | ChEMBL RDF | Mark Davies |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | EBI RDF platform | Mark Davies, Simon Jupp |
| 11:30 | Practical: Exploring EBI RDF platform | Mark Davies, Simon Jupp |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Practical: Federated queries | Simon Jupp |
| 14:30 | Break | |
| 15:00 | Discussion | All |
| 15:30 | End of workshop | |
Living Document
The Living Document created during the course can be viewed as a Google Doc: RDF Living Document
Slides
The slides used as part of the workshop have been uploaded onto this webpage.
