Ontological resources, such as curated vocabularies and hierarchical ontologies, are used as the glue which is vital for knowledge management on the semantically enabled worldwide web. This webinar will explore selected use cases and challenges for ontological engineering which is critical for a successful life science sector.

1. Ontologies as the glue for
knowledge management:
use cases and challenges
a Pistoia Alliance Debates webinar
Tuesday January 20th, 2015 @ 3-4pm UK
chaired by Ian Harrow

2. This webinar is being recorded

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Chair and Panelists
Ian D Harrow at Ian Harrow Consulting
Director & Principal Consultant. Clients benefit from expert Project Management, Bioinformatics and Text Mining services applied
to real world problems. This includes the application of biomedical ontologies. Strong involvement in pre-competitive research for
the Pistoia Alliance, Open PHACTS and previous representation of Pfizer at the EMBL-EBI Industry Partners group. Over 30
years experience working for the Pharmaceutical and Life Science industry. PhD from University of Cambridge, UK.
Philippe Rocca-Serra at University of Oxford, e-Research Centre
Technical coordinator of the ISA project, editor on the Biosharing effort (a registry of data standards and policies). Over 10 years
of practice in data management and an active member of several standardization efforts which promote open data and open
science vision. This includes being a member of the OBO Foundry editorial board and participates in the Ontology for Biomedical
Investigation (OBI) project. Involved in several European Framework projects including Metabolights at EBI and eTRIKS IMI
consortium. PhD from University of Bordeaux, FR.
Gordon Baxter at Instem
Chief Scientific Officer at Instem plc. Has been both a customer (in senior R&D roles in Pharma) and a vendor (in senior roles at
Pharmagene, Biowisdom and now Instem) of IT solutions targeting numerous points in the R&D continuum. Board member of
Pistoia Alliance. Keen interest in Translational Informatics; finding value in bring data together from research, development and
medical practice over 20 years. PhD from University of Bradford, UK.
Martin Romacker at Roche
Senior Scientist in Data and Information Architecture at Roche Innovation Center Basel. Primary focus is definition and application
of data standards to facilitate seamless data federation and answering of complex scientific queries. Current activities include
Terminology Management, Ontology Engineering, Information Architecture, Scientific Data Integration, Data Curation, Data
Quality, Text Mining and Information Retrieval/ Search Technologies. Previously a Senior Knowledge Engineering Consultant at
Novartis. More than 20 years of practice in Knowledge Management. PhD from University of Freiburg, Germany.
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Questions
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• What use case can you each give, which demonstrates
the power of ontologies to enable knowledge
management?

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Questions
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• What use case can you each give, which demonstrates
the power of ontologies to enable knowledge
management?
• What attributes make an ontology useful?

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Questions
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• What use case can you each give, which demonstrates
the power of ontologies to enable knowledge
management?
• What attributes make an ontology useful?
• What aspects of ontologies challenge their successful
application?

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Questions
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• What use case can you each give, which demonstrates
the power of ontologies to enable knowledge
management?
• What attributes make an ontology useful?
• What aspects of ontologies challenge their successful
application?
• What can be done to overcome such challenges to the
application of ontologies now and in a 2-5 year time
frame?

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