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The SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework builds a complete ecosystem around Semantic Web technologies to make health-related data FAIR. From an Excel-based SPHN Dataset, SPHN projects need to create an RDF schema, related SHACL rules for helping data validation, SPARQLs for data exploration and ideally a documentation to better visualize the schema. This requires SPHN projects …

Release of the SPHN Schema Forge web service and the SPHN Dataset2RDF Tool. Read More »

By: Deepak Unni, Scientific Coordinator, SIB PHI Group The use of Semantic Web technologies for organizing knowledge has had increasing adoption in recent years. Such technologies provide a way to organize biological and biomedical knowledge to represent complex interrelationships within and across sub-domains of biology. Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the SWAT4HCLS 2023 …

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Today marks a significant achievement for the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) with the announcement of the 2023 version (2023.2) of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework. This latest release subercedes the 2023.1 release, which was softlaunched earlier in March, and sets the foundation for all SPHN National Data Streams and Demonstrator Projects. Included in this …

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SPHN Quality Control Tools 21.07.2022 Ensuring data quality is of the utmost importance for personalized health research. Validation of data can be a cumbersome and time consuming process. In the Semantic Web, the Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) is used to facilitate the validation of RDF graph data against a given schema. However writing such checking …

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07.06.2022 What does SPHN do for researchers? The new SPHN Factsheet has the answers. Take a look at the SPHN infrastructures, tools and services that have been developed to support researchers in doing complex and multi-site research studies with personalized health data, and the behind the scenes developments to make health data FAIR in Switzerland. Click Here

02.06.2022 Today, SPHN releases the 2022.1 edition of the SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework package including the SPHN Dataset (Pillar 1) and the SPHN RDF schema (Pillar 2). This important milestone was jointly achieved by the FAIR Data Team (formerly Data Interoperaibilty Team) of the SPHN Data Coordination Center, representatives from the University Hospitals and collaborators …

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