e-MIR2: a public online inventory of medical informatics resources

Background. Over the last years, the number of available informatics resources in medicine has grown exponentially. While specific inventories of such resources have already begun to be developed for Bioinformatics (BI), comparable inventories are as yet not available for Medical Informatics (MI) field, so that locating and accessing them currently remains a hard and time-consuming task. Description. We have created a repository of MI resources from the scientific literature, providing free access to its contents through a web-based service. Relevant information describing the resources is automatically extracted from manuscripts published in top-ranked MI journals. We used a pattern matching approach to detect the resources? names and their main features. Detected resources are classified according to three different criteria: functionality, resource type and domain. To facilitate these tasks, we have built three different taxonomies by following a novel approach based on folksonomies and social tagging. We adopted the terminology most frequently used by MI researchers in their publications to create the concepts and hierarchical relationships belonging to the taxonomies. The classification algorithm identifies the categories associated to resources and annotates them accordingly. The database is then populated with this data after manual curation and validation. Conclusions. We have created an online repository of MI resources to assist researchers in locating and accessing the most suitable resources to perform specific tasks. The database contained 282 resources at the time of writing. We are continuing to expand the number of available resources by taking into account further publications as well as suggestions from users and resource developers.

Identifying the semantics of eligibility criteria of clinical trials based on relevant medical ontologies

An important objective of the INTEGRATE project1 is to build tools that support the efficient execution of post-genomic multi-centric clinical trials in breast cancer, which includes the automatic assessment of the eligibility of patients for available trials. The population suited to be enrolled in a trial is described by a set of free-text eligibility criteria that are both syntactically and semantically complex. At the same time, the assessment of the eligibility of a patient for a trial requires the (machineprocessable) understanding of the semantics of the eligibility criteria in order to further evaluate if the patient data available for example in the hospital EHR satisfies these criteria. This paper presents an analysis of the semantics of the clinical trial eligibility criteria based on relevant medical ontologies in the clinical research domain: SNOMED-CT, LOINC, MedDRA. We detect subsets of these widely-adopted ontologies that characterize the semantics of the eligibility criteria of trials in various clinical domains and compare these sets. Next, we evaluate the occurrence frequency of the concepts in the concrete case of breast cancer (which is our first application domain) in order to provide meaningful priorities for the task of binding/mapping these ontology concepts to the actual patient data. We further assess the effort required to extend our approach to new domains in terms of additional semantic mappings that need to be developed.

Datos enlazados en la Biblioteca Nacional de España

Datos enlazados en la Biblioteca Nacional de España

Aplicación de tecnologías de la web semántica para la catalogación de contenidos musicales

El siguiente artículo describe el proceso de aplicación de tecnologías de la Web semántica para el enriquecimiento de una biblioteca de contenidos musicales, en el contexto del proyecto Semusici. El propósito del proyecto Semusici es investigar como las tecnologías de la Web semántica pueden ser aplicadas a bibliotecas digitales y como esto puede mejorar la búsqueda y la accesibilidad. Este proyecto parte de los resultados del proyecto de eContent Harmos, que definía una taxonomía musical para la catalogación de clases magistrales, y propone una metodología para la conversión de esta taxonomía en una ontología y la migración de los contenidos de Harmos.

Una aproximación a la integración en Open Data de los recursos INSPIRE de la IDEE.

Este trabajo, «Una aproximación a Ia integración en Open Data de los recursos Inspire de Ia IDEE », tiene por objetivo el construir un puente entre las Infraestructuras de Datos Espaciales (IDE) y el mundo de los «datos abiertos » aprovechando el marco legal de la Reutilización de la Información del Sector Público (RISP). Tras analizar qué es RISP y en particular los datos abiertos, y cómo se implementa en distintas Administraciones, se estudian los requisitos técnicos y legales necesarios para construir el «traductor» que permita canalizar la información IDE en el portal central de reutilización de información español datos.gob.es, dando una mayor visibilidad a los recursos INSPIRE. El trabajo se centra específicamente en dos puntos: en primer lugar en proporcionar y documentar la solución técnica que sirva en primera instancia para que el Instituto Geográfico Nacional aporte con más eficiencia sus recursos a datos.gob.es. En segundo lugar, a estudiar la aplicabilidad de esta misma solución al ámbito de la IDE de España (IDEE), señalando problemas detectados en el análisis de su contenido y sugiriendo recomendaciones para minimizar los problemas de su potencial reutilización. ABSTRACT: This work titled «Analysis of the integration of INSPIRE resources coming from Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructure within the National Public Sector Information portal», aims to build a bridge between the Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI ) and the world of "Open Data" taking advantage of the legal framework on the Re-use of Public Sector Information (PSI) . After analyzing what PSI reuse and Open Data is and how it is implemented by different administrations, a study to extract the technical and legal requirements is done to build the "translator" that will allow adding SDI resources within the Spanish portal for the PSI reuse data .gob.es while giving greater visibility to INSPIRE. This document specifically focuses on two aspects: first to provide and document the technical solution that serves primarily for the National Geographic Institute to supply more efficiently its resources to datos.gob.es. Secondly, to study the applicability of the proposed solution to the whole Spanish SDI (IDEE), noting identified problems and suggesting recommendations to minimize problems of its potential reuse.

Structuring research methods and data with the research object model: genomics workflows as a case study

Background: One of the main challenges for biomedical research lies in the computer-assisted integrative study of large and increasingly complex combinations of data in order to understand molecular mechanisms. The preservation of the materials and methods of such computational experiments with clear annotations is essential for understanding an experiment, and this is increasingly recognized in the bioinformatics community. Our assumption is that offering means of digital, structured aggregation and annotation of the objects of an experiment will provide necessary meta-data for a scientist to understand and recreate the results of an experiment. To support this we explored a model for the semantic description of a workflow-centric Research Object (RO), where an RO is defined as a resource that aggregates other resources, e.g., datasets, software, spreadsheets, text, etc. We applied this model to a case study where we analysed human metabolite variation by workflows. Results: We present the application of the workflow-centric RO model for our bioinformatics case study. Three workflows were produced following recently defined Best Practices for workflow design. By modelling the experiment as an RO, we were able to automatically query the experiment and answer questions such as “which particular data was input to a particular workflow to test a particular hypothesis?”, and “which particular conclusions were drawn from a particular workflow?”. Conclusions: Applying a workflow-centric RO model to aggregate and annotate the resources used in a bioinformatics experiment, allowed us to retrieve the conclusions of the experiment in the context of the driving hypothesis, the executed workflows and their input data. The RO model is an extendable reference model that can be used by other systems as well.

Archivos de arquitectura “en abierto”

Pretendemos compartir la experiencia de dos instituciones que han difundido “en abierto” el fruto de sus trabajos: el COAM con la plataforma Guía de Arquitectura de Madrid y la Biblioteca de la ETSAM con la colección Archivo de Arquitectura. Aunque surgieron independientemente, resultan complementarias y podrían ser el origen de un proyecto de colaboración más ambicioso entre estos centros y otros interesados en los archivos de arquitectura. Este material es fuente primaria para el estudio de la disciplina, resulta imprescindible para intervenir en el patrimonio arquitectónico y guarda buena parte de la memoria de nuestro entorno. Como pensamos que su divulgación es necesaria, proponemos crear una plataforma digital que de acceso en abierto a esta documentación mediante la recolección de metadatos, de modo que sea posible llegar hasta el documento digitalizado. Así se pondrían estos archivos al alcance de todos: especialistas, comunidad universitaria y público en general.

Interoperabilidad semántica de ontologías basada en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural

Se presenta un estudio y propuesta de interoperabilidad semántica entre ontologías del dominio de la salud basada en técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural. El objetivo fundamental ha sido el desarrollo de un algoritmo de interconexión semántica entre los términos de dos ontologías solapadas y heterogéneas, denominadas «fuente» (Clasificación internacional de enfermedades, 9ª revisión, modificación clínica: CIE-9-MC) y «diana» (esquema jerárquico de la asignatura Enfermería Materno-Infantil: EMI). Esta propuesta permite emparejar semánticamente ontologías, a partir de la reutilización de otro recurso ontológico (WordNet español), sin destruir o modificar la semántica de identidad de cada una de las ontologías involucradas. El modelo presentado puede permitir al usuario acceder a la información que necesita en otra clasificación jerárquica, sin precisar de un entrenamiento referido a la conceptualización de cada sistema, pues utilizaría la ontología «diana» con la que está familiarizado para su aplicación a la recuperación de información.

Almetrics: measuring the influence of the media on the social impact of research

Social media is changing the way we interact, present ideas and information and judge the quality of content and contributions. In recent years there have been hundreds of platforms to freely share all kinds of information and connect across networks. These new tools generate activity statistics and interactions among users such as mentions, retweets, conversations, comments on blogs or Facebook; managers references showing popularity ratings of more references shared by other researchers or repositories that generate statistics of visits or downloads of articles. This paper analyzes that have meaning and implications altmetrics, what are its advantages and critical platforms (Almetric.com, ImpactStory, Plos altmetrics, PlumX), reports progress and benefits for authors, publishers and librarians. It concluded that the value of alternative metrics as a complementary tool citation analysis is evident, although it is suggested that you should dig deeper into this issue to unravel the meaning and the potential value of these indicators to assess their potential.

Design of information architecture of the web site of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Tourism of the Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (Cuba)

The information architecture supports information retrieval by users in Web environment. The design should be center in the information user, favoring usability. The Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Tourism of the Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, lacks a site that enhances the disclosure of information to its members. Are presented as objectives of the study: 1) conduct a user survey to identify information needs of users, 2) establish guidelines for information architecture for the institution focused on users, 3) designing the information architecture for the institution and 4) designed to evaluate the proposal. Are presented as objectives of the study: 1) to realize a user study to identify the information needs of users, 2) establish guidelines for information architecture for the institution focused on users, 3) to design the information architecture for the institution and 4) to evaluate the proposal designed. To obtain results are used methods in the theoretical and empirical levels. Besides, are use techniques that favored the design and evaluation. Is designed the intranet of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Tourism. Is evaluated the proposed design for the validation of the results.

Production and presence in the countries of Central America in Scopus on the theme of Documentation in Social Communication (1986-2013)

Describes and analyzes the results obtained after analysis of the publications present in Scopus data base and used that tool rankings generated by the research group Scimago on the production of the different countries of Central America on the issue of documentation the means of mass communication. Performed a comparative about different countries in the region and the scientific analyzes. Finally, and given and data analysis, a number of recommendations are made to improve the production and the presence in indexed database.

Women’s football. Notes for a social history of women’s sport in Spain, 1900-1936

In the context of demands by the European feminist movement at the beginning of the 20th century, in Spain women’s sport flagged up aspirations to what were considered to be male practices. The first experiences of women in football stand out because of their use of the media to appear as a symbol of social transformation to modernity in the 20th century. It was not in vain that women’s football highlighted the demands of the feminist movements, although it did come up against male disapproval from an opposing group. The research sets out from a bibliographical and media review of specialist press and sports news of the time. Other current studies have also been considered in order to place it in a social and historical focus on sport. This has enabled us to highlight that football in Spain was established as an unequivocal space for (re) producing male hegemony where women were relegated to the representation of a symbolic ritual in a scenario of accessory and condescension.

La existencia de necesidades de información y comportamiento informativo en los entrenadores en deportes de combate

Este trabajo tiene como propósito esencial, realizar un acercamiento para detectar e identificar las necesidades de información y el comportamiento informativo de entrenadores en deportes de combate. Para ello se aplicó un cuestionario a instructores de aikido, boxeo, esgrima, judo, karate, kendo, lima lama, lucha y taekwondo seleccionados mediante un muestreo no probabilístico por causalidad. En general encontramos que los principales temas de interés entre los instructores son: los programas de entrenamiento, nutrición y dietas de entrenamiento. Por otra parte, los entrenadores son más propensos a utilizar su experiencia, internet y cursos para obtener información. En contraste se nota que la biblioteca y los libros son poco usados.

Documentación de la vida, obra y aportes del maestro Aurelio Fernández Guerrero como una estrategia para la preservación y el fortalecimiento de las músicas de pito atravesado de la Depresión Momposina

El presente proyecto tiene su fundamento en un proceso de investigación y documentación en torno a vida ,obra y aportes del Maestro Aurelio Fernández a las músicas tradicionales colombianas- caña de millo-, de la Depresión Momposina y se expresa en una propuesta estructurada encaminada a definir los diferentes momentos conceptuales y procedimentales, así como de gestión y financiación que permitan contribuir con la preservación y fomento de la memoria colectiva de los habitantes de la región de referencia. Para la puesta en marcha del proyecto se han diseñado tres estrategias de intervención: investigación como proceso de reconstrucción colectiva de información documentada, registró como estrategia de fortalecimiento en torno la preservación, resignificación y apropiación de los saberes ancestrales y comunicación para la circulación, difusión y conocimiento de la información y de los productos.