Concept Web Alliance Hits Ground Running in Bid to Harness Semantic Web for Life Sciences

GenomeWeb reports that

The Concept Web Alliance — an international nonprofit organization aimed at harnessing semantic web approaches to corral life-science data — kicked off Friday with an inaugural meeting in New York City’s Hall of Science

More details are available in the GenomeWeb article.

As described on the Concept Web website,

Concept Web [is] a dynamic, interactive fabric of concepts and their relationships. The Concept Web is constructed from, inter alia, research literature, Internet databases and other web sites together with off-line resources. The aim of creating the Concept Web is to remove both redundancy and ambiguity from available knowledge in order to help deal with information overload, to semantically ‘connect’ concepts, and so to maximize the potential for knowledge discovery.