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Title: Re: [xml-dev] DTD/Schema for biological/biomedical
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Hi Karen,
The Human Markup Language being developed by the OASIS
HumanMarkup TC (you can look it up on the OASIS website) will have a
subset called the Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup
Language which will intersect some of what you are looking for, and in
a similar vein, will be including all the existing web, academic and
medical standards, as well as coordinating with the Biometrics TC ,
which I have not followed closely because at the moment we are
finishing up our Primary Base Schema and once we call for the 30-day
public comment period, I will personally be switching over to the
Physical Characteristics Description ML, probably early-mid-Novbember.
If you remember you might want to look us up and contact me then. I
would be happy to work with you on this.
Ciao,
Rex Brooks
At 4:39 PM -0500 10/17/02, Karen Harker wrote:
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I am a Web
Developer/Librarian at UT Southwestern Medical Center Library in
Dallas. The center will be conducting a large number of
studies regarding bioterrorism in the near future (grant
proposals are going out now) and I am considering proposing a
project to provide a central repository for the
datasets.
We have just purchased a
portal system (ENCompass) that organizes and searches resources using
any DTD/Schema that is appropriate for that resource, and I would like
to use that as the structure. Since I don't want to re-invent
the wheel, I would like to know if somebody is aware of a DTD or
schema that has been developed for these objects, and if so, which
would be the best to use. The primary purpose I envision would
be to store datasets (most likely after the data has been gathered,
but before publication of results), easily find and download datasets
based on such parameters as topics, objectives, hypotheses, animal
models, exposures, etc., relate datasets with biomedical
literature, and to share preliminary results with
colleagues.
I am aware of a few DTDs,
but I'm not sure if any would fit:
DDI - for social science
& economic research
HDF5 - used by NCSA, but
mostly on astrophysics
Tissue micro array DTD -
uses DC, Gene Ontology, RDF, and a self-referenced TMA - is
particular to tissue slides.
Admittedly, I am only in
the environmental scanning stage (who has done what) but I have not
found much information. I would like to be more knowledgeable before I
approach the big-wigs.
Thank you very much for
your assistance.
Karen R. Harker, MLS
UT Southwestern Medical Library
5323 Harry Hines Blvd.
Dallas, TX 75390-9049
214-648-1698
http://www.swmed.edu/library/
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Rex Brooks
President, CEO, Starbourne Communications Design,
Executive Director, Humanmarkup.org, Inc.
Vice Chair, Secretary, Webmaster, OASIS HumanMarkup Technical
Committee
Webmaster, OASIS Web Services for Interactive Applications Technical
Committee
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