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A bit over a week ago, SWAT4HCLS 2026 took place, with the matching\nbiohackathon on Thursday (see\nthis post.\nI attempted a bit of live coverage on mastodon: day 1 and\nday 2. But it seems the semantic web community interested\nin SWAT4HCLS has not found the fediverse yet. So, make sure to check\nthis full list of abstracts.

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The meeting consisted of four keynotes, each\none was quite interesting. Cornet gave a nice historic perspective of the venue and of the semantic web field,\nwhich is a great way to welcome the participants to your institute. The talk also touches on the main theme\nof the meeting: clinical data. It is a long standing (and important) research field, but progress is slow.\nCornet comments along the lines that we have been talking\nabout reasoning over patient data for more than twenty years, but we still have not solve it.

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The problem is really not only privacy, but simple also lack of a common language. As\nSabine Österle explains\nabout sharing health/patient data in Switzerland, across 26 kantons and legislations and 4 national languages.\nAnother issue is more technical, running SPARQL across hospitals involves more than just aligning ontologies,\nbut also requires (too much) fiddling with SPARQL queries.

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There was plenty of other content too, however. For example, I was pleasantly\nsurprised by the\nRDF4RiskAssessment\nwork, the RO-Crates for BioImaging,\nand FDPcrawleR.\nAll these projects have direct links to research ongoing in our TGX team.

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Hanna Bast gave the second keynote of the first day, about QLever\n(doi:10.1145/3132847.3132921). She talked about some of the recent improvements,\nsomething we really needed for Scholia.\nShe showed a technical approach to make federated queries faster, tho it currently only works between endpoints\nthat both run QLever. One thing I am looking forward to, is playing with the notion of\nmaterialized views, but the biohackathon\nwas too short to get around to that during the Thursday.

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The second day kicked off with a keynote by Janna Hastings,\nwhose work I greatly admire. I was not disappointed today, and she showed the\nBehaviour Change Intervention Ontology and Chebifier\n(doi:10.1039/D3DD00238A).

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The last talk I want to mention in the blog is by two researcher working with Michel Dumontier. They\npresented\na study about deduplication in/of knowledge graphs. This is something I want to read in more detail.

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References

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Bast, H., & Buchhold, B. (2017). QLever. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 647–656. https://doi.org/10.1145/3132847.3132921 CrossRef Scholia
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Glauer, M., Neuhaus, F., Flügel, S., Wosny, M., Mossakowski, T., Memariani, A., Schwerdt, J., & Hastings, J. (2024). Chebifier: automating semantic classification in ChEBI to accelerate data-driven discovery. Digital Discovery, 3(5), 896–907. https://doi.org/10.1039/d3dd00238a CrossRef Scholia
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