Fwd: Free AMIA Webinar 5/28/15 3:00PM EST

[Alan Ruttenberg]

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From: Kohn, Gunther <gk...@buffalo.edu>
Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:36 AM
Subject: Free AMIA Webinar 5/28/15 3:00PM EST
To: Dental Informatics Online Community members <alanrut...@gmail.com>


Dear DIOC Members,

The AMIA Dental Informatics Work Group (DI-WG) is pleased to announce the next webinar in the Dr. Heather K. Hill Memorial webinar series on May 28, 3:00-4:00 pm EST: "Ontology structured dental records and their analysis using Semantic Web technologies” by Alan Ruttenberg, Director of Clinical and Translational Data Exchange, University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine.

With the generous sponsorship and support of Dr. Heather K. Hill Foundation and Dr. Daniel J. Pihlstrom (Dr. Heather Hill’s husband), we are able to offer this webinar for free to non-AMIA members.

Thank you,
Gunther and Kelsey (DI-WG Co-Chairs)

For further details and to register, please go here.

Member Fee:  $0.00
Non-member fee: $0.00

Title: Ontology structured dental records and their analysis using Semantic Web technologies
Abstract: Structured data for health records is notoriously difficult to manage and share because of the wide variety of representations chosen and the lack of transparency of proprietary systems. Here I demonstrate a principled approach to representation based on the ontological realism and practices developed in the Open Biological/Biomedical Ontology community (OBO). As an example we take twelve years of private dental practice data and translate it into OWL(Web Ontology Language) using OBO Foundry  principles. The results are stored in a GraphDB, a triple store that can calculate a subset of OWL inference. We then use the R statistics environment to query data using SPARQL and analyze it, in this case using survival analysis to assess longevity of resin restorations.

While this project has used existing data for development, the proposal is that new systems adopt a similar strategy, taking advantage of open systems and community practices to build the EMR of the future. In this vision, representations that underlie an EMR would be useful for typical operational needs but at the same time substantially more accessible for researchers and other than the developers of such systems. Development of the representation could enjoy the same benefits as are seen in the model organism community using OBO ontologies – scalability, distributed responsibility for term development and maintenance and focus on quality. Using semantic web technologies means that systems can be built with and based on open standards that will be the foundation of a semantic web.

Speaker Information: Alan Ruttenberg is a leader in the field of biomedical ontology.  He has organized national and international workshops and driven ontology development efforts in a variety of biomedical disciplines. Following a decade of working in the pharmaceutical industry, he move to the Creative Commons. There he engaged in W3C standardizations efforts around OWL and development of working prototypes that demonstrate how OBO Foundry ontologies, semantic web technologies, and public databases work together.

Ruttenberg is a Coordinating Editor of the OBO Foundry initiative, where he participates in review of developing ontologies and recognize and promote opportunities for tighter integration across ontologies. He has held leading positions in development and logical encoding in a number of ontologies, among them the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations, the Protein Ontology, the Basic Formal Ontology, the Infectious Disease Ontology, the Information Ontology and the Ontology for Oral Health and Disease.  Areas of expertise include data integration, ontology for science and medicine, bioinformatics, computational biology, open science, semantic web technologies, user interface, parallel computing, facilitation.