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DESCRIPTION:Click for Latest Location Information: http://semtech2010.semanticuniverse.com/sessionPop.cfm?confid=42&proposalid=2956nThe UK?s National Health Service (NHS) is the largest healthcare provider in the world. Allocating its resources in such a way as to give optimal service requires efficient planning in the short and medium term. But to ensure that budgets continue to be used effectively in the future, the planning process needs to take into account changes in technology and techniques that may become available over the longer term.nMonitoring innovations that are being made today, so as to anticipate their likely impact in the future is called “horizon scanning”, and it?s an ideal application of semantic web technologies:n
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Tools need to represent information in a playful manner so that users can find previously unknown relationships.
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A broad range of data sources need to be published, consumed, and integrated?something that is only possible with a combination of Linked Data, RDFa and flexible ontologies.
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nThis session will look at the need for horizon scanning in large organizations, and how semantic web technologies can be used to meet this need. It will draw on the work by the NHS to provide many examples and illustrations, in particular looking at how ontologies, RDFa and Linked Data can provide the glue that binds the semantic toolkit together.
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SUMMARY:Monitoring Healthcare Innovation: A Case Study in Using OWL, Linked Data and RDFa
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