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<br /> Contacts for this Working Group are Zak Kohane (isaac_kohane@harvard.edu), Suzi Lewis(suzi@fruitfly.org), and Mark Musen (musen@stanford.edu)
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<br /> Contacts for this Working Group are Ivo Dinov (), Trish Whetzel(), and Peter Lyster (lysterp@mail.nih.gov)
  
 
==Biositemaps==
 
==Biositemaps==
  
The [[SDIWG | NCBC Resourcome Working Group]] of the [http://www.ncbcs.org NIH Roadmap National Centers of Biomedical Computing (NCBC) (www.ncbcs.org)] is prototyping technologies to address (i) locating, (ii) querying, (iii) composing or combining, and (iv) mining software tools and information resources on the Internet. Each site which intends to contribute to the inventory instantiates a file on its Internet site ‘'biositemap.rdf' which conforms to a defined RDF schema and uses concepts from the Biomedical Resource Ontology to describe the resources.
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The Biositemaps Working Group of the [http://www.ncbcs.org/ NIH Roadmap National Centers of Biomedical Computing (NCBC) (www.ncbcs.org)] has developed a standard for communicating information on the Internet about biomedical resources (tools, data, material, and services). The official public site for this effort is http://www.biositemaps.org/.  In addition, the working group is using the biositemaps standard to address (i) locating, (ii) querying, (iii) composing or combining, and (iv) mining biomedical resources on the Internet. Each site which intends to contribute to the inventory instantiates a file on its Internet site ‘'biositemap.rdf' which conforms to a defined RDF schema and uses concepts from the [http: Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)} to describe the resources.  Each biositemap.rdf file is simply a list of controlled metadata about resources that your organization uses or believes are important to biomedical research.  
  
==[http://www.biositemaps.org What is a Biositemap?]==
 
Biositemaps represent a mechanism for computational biologists and bio-informaticians to openly broadcast and retrieve meta-data about biomedical data, tools and services (i.e., biomedical resources) over the Internet. The overarching principle is quite simple: we recommend that all Institutions with an interest in biomedical research publish a biositemap.rdf file on their Internet site. Each biositemap.rdf file is simply a list of controlled metadata about resources (software tools, databases, material resources) that your organization uses or believes are important to biomedical research.
 
 
* The key enabling technologies are the [http://www.ncbcs.org/biositemaps/formatDescription.html Information Model (IM)] which is the list of metadata fields about each resource (Resource_name, description, contact_person, resource_type,...) and  
 
* The key enabling technologies are the [http://www.ncbcs.org/biositemaps/formatDescription.html Information Model (IM)] which is the list of metadata fields about each resource (Resource_name, description, contact_person, resource_type,...) and  
 
* The [http://bioportal.bioontology.org/virtual/1104 Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)] which is a controlled terminology for the 'resource_type' and which is used to improve the sensitivity and specificity of web searches.
 
* The [http://bioportal.bioontology.org/virtual/1104 Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)] which is a controlled terminology for the 'resource_type' and which is used to improve the sensitivity and specificity of web searches.

Revision as of 20:14, 7 June 2009

Home < Biositemaps

This is the main page for the NIH Roadmap National Centers for Biomedical Computing (NCBC) Working Group titled: Biositemaps and the Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)

Top page of ncbcs.org web site which is maintained by the NCBCs themselves

Top page of NCBC Working Groups web site


Contacts for this Working Group are Ivo Dinov (), Trish Whetzel(), and Peter Lyster (lysterp@mail.nih.gov)

Biositemaps

The Biositemaps Working Group of the NIH Roadmap National Centers of Biomedical Computing (NCBC) (www.ncbcs.org) has developed a standard for communicating information on the Internet about biomedical resources (tools, data, material, and services). The official public site for this effort is http://www.biositemaps.org/. In addition, the working group is using the biositemaps standard to address (i) locating, (ii) querying, (iii) composing or combining, and (iv) mining biomedical resources on the Internet. Each site which intends to contribute to the inventory instantiates a file on its Internet site ‘'biositemap.rdf' which conforms to a defined RDF schema and uses concepts from the [http: Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)} to describe the resources. Each biositemap.rdf file is simply a list of controlled metadata about resources that your organization uses or believes are important to biomedical research.

  • The key enabling technologies are the Information Model (IM) which is the list of metadata fields about each resource (Resource_name, description, contact_person, resource_type,...) and
  • The Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO) which is a controlled terminology for the 'resource_type' and which is used to improve the sensitivity and specificity of web searches.

What is the Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO)?

A key enabling technology for Biositemaps is the Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO) which is a controlled terminology for the 'resource_type' and which is used to improve the sensitivity and specificity of web searches. This is under development by a number of NIH-funded researchers who have a combined interest in classification of biomedical resources. The publication site for BRO is the BioPortal.