title: Towards virtual knowledge broker services for semantic integration of life science literature and data sources.
abstract: Research in the life sciences requires ready access to primary data, derived information and relevant knowledge from a multitude of sources. Integration and interoperability of such resources are crucial for sharing content across research domains relevant to the life sciences. In this article we present a perspective review of data integration with emphasis on a semantics driven approach to data integration that pushes content into a shared infrastructure, reduces data redundancy and clarifies any inconsistencies. This enables much improved access to life science data from numerous primary sources. The Semantic Enrichment of the Scientific Literature (SESL) pilot project demonstrates feasibility for using already available open semantic web standards and technologies to integrate public and proprietary data resources, which span structured and unstructured content. This has been accomplished through a precompetitive consortium, which provides a cost effective approach for numerous stakeholders to work together to solve common problems.
authors.affiliation: Ian Harrow Consulting, UK. ianharrowconsulting@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Harrow
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Filsell
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Woollard
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dix
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Braxenthaler
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gedye
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hoole
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kidd
authors.forename: Jabe
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Dietrich
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rebholz-Schuhmann
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D018511:Systems Integration