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QUESTIONNAIRE:
CURRENT OPINIONS ON SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCE
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Your name:
Name of
working place, city, country:
URL of
personal homepage:
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Please
return the filled-out questionnaire as an e-mail to matthias.samwald@meduniwien.ac.at
or samwald@gmx.at
Please
return the questionnaire before __________.
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== Personal
background ==
Question: What professional background do you have? (only a brief introduction, please)
Answer:
Question: Is
your background mostly academic
(e.g. research at a university) or mostly commercial (e.g. development for a
private company)?
Options:
academic // commercial // both // other (please specify).
Answer:
Question: Is the work you are currently doing more
oriented towards basic research or clinical application?
Options:
basic research // clinical // both // other (please specify).
Answer:
Question: Which kind of knowledge / information do
your current projects deal with? How is the information organised and
communicated at the moment?
Answer:
Question: What experience or problem has kindled your
interest in the Semantic Web?
Answer:
==
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats ==
Question: Where do you see the greatest current strengths of the Semantic Web
technologies in the life sciences and health care? What would be your best
argument for the use of Semantic Web technologies in the pharmaceutical,
biotechnological or clinical industry or academic research?
Answer:
Question: Where do you see the greatest current weaknesses of the Semantic Web
technologies in the life science and health care domain? What are the greatest
problems the Semantic Web community is having at the moment? What features do
you miss from current Semantic Web technologies and standards that would be
important for your current projects?
Answer:
== Future
prognosis and developments ==
Question: How will the Semantic Web technologies in
the field of life science and health care develop in the next 10 years? Do you
think they have the potential to replace some current technologies (e.g.
relational databases, XML) to a significant degree during this time? How will
they interact with other technologies?
Answer:
Question: Which steps should people involved in the
Semantic Web community take to popularize Semantic Web technologies in science?
How could the Semantic Web be ‘advertised’ to end-users like researchers and
medical doctors?
Answer:
== HCLSIG
internal, not to be published ==
Question: How did you and your work benefit from the
participation in the W3C HCLS interest group so far?
Answer:
Question: Are there topics / communities that are
under-represented in the W3C HCLS interest group?
Answer:
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