Status of HCLS KB

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Status of HCLS KB

• Hosted by DERI using Virtuoso (Matthias Samwald)
• Import from Neurocommons
• Other datasets Bio2RDF, Biogateway,
• Additional HCLS KB possibly hosted by Free
  University (Adrian Paschke)
• hosting different but related datasets
• mirroring a subset of ontologes (if we need a
  more reliable/robust access in the long run)
• exploring different triplestore technologies
• building a rule layer on top of OWL ontologies
• other?

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Use Cases/Applications

• Scientific queries (e.g., neuroscience domain)
• Visual interface (e.g., Exhibit, Vispedia, 3D
  visualization)
• Scientific collaboration framework
• Semantic Wiki
• Collaboration with other task forces (e.g., LODD
  and Scientific Discourse)