The Linking Open Drug Data project is gaining traction
The Linking Open Drug Data Task Force of the W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Science Interest Group won the first prize (equaling 1000 Euros) at this years Triplification Challenge that was held in Graz, Austria. Matthias Samwald from the DERI Health Care and Life Science group and the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research was among the winning LODD team. The goal of this work is to make data pharmaceutical data relevant to doctors, pharmaceutical companies and patients better accessible through linked data technologies.
You can find more information about the work in the Triplification Challenge submission:Linking Open Drug Data (pdf), Authors: Anja Jentzsch, Jun Zhao, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Matthias Samwald, Bo Andersson.
You can also view a screencast of the talk by Anja Jentzsch. The RDF data produced by the task force are accessible via the HCLS Knowledge Base hosted at DERI.
