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NDG Interoperability

This page contains technical details and tools related to the current development of NDG federated data interoperability.
Its content is in constant change and revision...


Federated Data Integration Components




Interoperability Frameworks / Protocols
  • ndg.disco: This implementation uses test-bed basic protocols for incremental level of data integration
  • BrainML: This approach leverages BrainML-X and derived technologies for data interoperability.
  • RDF/OWL: Data integration approach based on Resource Description Framework / Web Ontology Language


Prototyping Tools  

- Lexicon Enhanced Search: (LES) provides federated database search based on their own terms. LES leverages database lexicons that are downloaded from the database Website every time the site updates its information. Supported databases are those providing some mechanism to export their lexicon.
 
- Standard Lexicon Search (ELS) this tool will allow searching NDG databases by using NIF standard neuroscience vocabularies. Standard vocabularies can be mapped to local database lexicons using ontological servers such as: BIRN-Bonfire, Query Integration Server - OS, GO, UMLS-KS ? ...
 
- Ontologically Mediated Search (OMS) Lexicons in both local databases and standard vocabularies will be enhanced to ontologies to be related to the following integration approaches:
  1. These ontologies can be mapped to mediator proxies to allow federated queries. A mediator query proxy must be provided or created to connect to the mediator
  2. A standard ontology can be mapped to RDF centralized repositories (Oracle/RDF), ...
  3. A standard ontology can be used to improve "search engines" specificity and sensibility
 
Interoperability Subcommittee Members

Maryann E. Martone (UCSD) subcommittee chair
Gordon M. Shepherd  (Yale University)
Douglas M Bowden (University of Washington)
Jan Bjaalie (University of Oslo)
Rolf Kötter (Vogt Brain Research Institute)
John Mazziotta (UCLA)
William Bug (Drexel University)
Jeff Grethe (UCSD)
Amarnath Gupta (UCSD)
Luis Marenco (Yale University)
 
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