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October 2007 Steve Bratt ([email protected] ) Chief Executive Officer World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/ New Web Technologies to Support Health Care and Life Sciences http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1004-sb-IntroAndHC LS/Intro.pdf This presentation: on the Web
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Page 1: October 2007 Steve Bratt (steve@w3.org)steve@w3.org Chief Executive Officer World Wide Web Consortium  New Web Technologies to Support.

October 2007

Steve Bratt ([email protected])Chief Executive OfficerWorld Wide Web Consortiumhttp://www.w3.org/

New Web Technologies to SupportHealth Care and Life Sciences

http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/1004-sb-IntroAndHCLS/Intro.pdfThis presentation: on the Web

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IT Challenges for Health Care and Life Sciences Organizations (and most others)

Domain-specific terminology Interfacing and interoperability Legacy systems and data Risk management Competition and efficiency Mergers and acquisitions Corporate governance Relationship management Security Globalization Leveraging IT -- a challenge in itself!

– XML, SOA, WS, mobile, semantics and more ...

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W3C Can Help You to …

Make it (your content, data, services)

Standard Accessible Mobile Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Useful

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Make … Standard

Why? Broad industry agreement (if done right) Interoperability ... cross -app, -org, -data Avoids vendor lock-in ... for providers and users Open access = no black boxes Mandated ... by customers, government Royalty-free standards = good business sense

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The Leading Web Standards Organization

Engineering the Web’s foundation– 1000+ technologists in 60 groups, working on (x)HTML, XML, CSS,

Web Services, and tens of emerging standards

440 Members 40+ Liaisons 20 Offices

– Newest: India,

China, S. Africa

http://www.w3.org/

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Why Participate in W3C?Saying in China*: "Third-class companies make products; second-class companies develop technology; first-class companies set standards."Leadership

– Introduce ideas through submissions, workshops, Incubator Groups– Influence standards through Working Groups, review, implementation

Early insight into market trends – Access world's foremost Web technologists from Member & Team– Plan for emerging technologies & markets through Member access

Promoting image as innovator – Participate in int’l media activities, press releases, testimonials– Display logo on W3C site (300K visits/day) and W3C logo on your site

(Membership / Benefits / How to join W3C / "At a Glance" brochure)

* from "China’s Post-WTO Technology Policy: Standards, Software and the Changing Nature of Techno-Nationalism", by Richard P. Suttmeier and Yao Xiangkui.

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Make it … Accessible

Web usage continues to expand Barriers for millions with disabilities Aging population = more disabled with age Often required (US regs, legal action) Huge carry-over benefits

Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case

Web Accessibility Initiative @ W3C

– New Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 soon

Access for people with disabilitiesand an aging population ...

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Make it … Mobile 2 billion people own mobile phones with Web browsers

– 300-400 million are actively used

2-3 million new mobile phones sold / day– Most new

phones will continue to include simple Web browsers

Potential for bringing the Web to more people is huge

Graphic: Nokia

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Mobile Web Initiative• Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 (Summary)

• Authoring content for good user experience• Effective delivery to and display on all mobile devices • Leveraging existing Web standards• Checker: http://www.w3.org/Mobile/check

• Related Working Groups• Device Description• Ubiquitous Web Applications• Developing Countries

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Make it … Web 2.0

Web 2.0– Users are authors– Dynamic interaction

Web 2.0 @ W3C = Rich Web Clients Activity Starting with existing W3C standards & javascript

– New HTML WG bringing most important spec up to date – DOM, CSS, SVG, are critical elements

Plus new standardization of work in the field– AJAX (XMLHTTPRequest object) and other JS features– Widget packaging and delivery format, etc.– Considering security, especially re: javascript use

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Make it … Web 3.0 (Semantic Web) Web 1.0 = Linked Documents Web 3.0* = Linked Data (Semantic Web)

Web becomes a global, relational database Semantic Web Activity @ W3C

– Query, Rules, Content Labeling, Case Studies and Use Cases

*New York Times, InternetNews

Subject Value

Property Where Subjects, Properties, Values can each have their own URLs, and thus are universally unique and linkable across the Web

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Make it … Useful Increasing focus on end users

– Supports application of standards to

real, important problem– Improves standards: Use cases,

requirements, implementation, testing Health Care and Life Sciences

– "use of Semantic Web technologies ...

to improve collaboration, research and

development, and innovation adoption" Interest in other verticals

– Financial services, eGoverment, media, transportation, etc.

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Informatics Interoperability:Current Situation Interoperability barriers are abundant

– Millions wasted on low-value-added workarounds. User learning curves are high, adoption is low.

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Value of Semantic Web to the Health Care / Life Sciences Semantic Web technologies offer common data model to ...

– ... to support domain-specific knowledge, vocabularies, taxonomies, etc.– ... and make it easier for cross-domain understanding, searching, sharing, re-

use, aggregating, and extending information– "Masters of the Semantic Web" (17 Oct 2005)– Science and the Semantic Web: J. Hendler, Science, Vol 299, Issue 5606, 520-

521 , 24 January 2003

By embedding semantics, researchers will be able to: – Find cures to diseases– Make drugs safer and more affordable– Enable health-care providers to offer individualized care for patients– etc., etc., etc.

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Informatics Interoperability:Based on Semantic Web Standards Interoperability: n. The ability of software and hardware from

multiple providers on multiple machines to communicate– Better-informed users, decision making, prediction, automation.

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Value of Health Care / Life Sciences to Semantic Web

Analogy?– Life Sciences : Semantic Web = Physics : Web

Challenging problem Interested community

– Interoperable Informatics Infrastructure Consortium (I3C) asked for W3C's help

– Successful W3C Workshop in October 2004

Great testbed for new Semantic technologies

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W3C's Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences IG

– Chairs: Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners), Eric Neumann (Teranode) First face-to-face meeting in January 2006

– ~70 participants from 35+ organizations, including: – Agfa, AstraZeneca, Cleveland Clinic, Eli Lilly, HL7, IBM, Merck, MITRE,

Oracle, Partners, Pfizer, Science Commons, Siemens, Teranode, U. Manchester, Yale

Charter: .. use of Semantic Web technologies and practices to improve collaboration, r&d, innovation adoption from bench to bedside

Task Forces working. Rechartering underway now.

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For more information

• W3C Membership: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/membership• How to become a W3C Member: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/join

http://www.w3.org/

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Selected References

W3C: http://www.w3.org/ Mobile Web: http://www.w3.org/Mobile/ Ubiquitous Web: http://www.w3.org/2006/10/uwa-activity-proposal.html Labeling: http://www.w3.org/2007/powder/ Voice: http://www.w3.org/Voice/ Multimodal: http://www.w3.org/2002/mmi/ Accessibility: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ Internationalization: http://www.w3.org/International/ Developing Countries: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/digital_divide/public.html Semantic Web: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ Security: http://www.w3.org/Security/