CrEDIBLE thematic working days

Due to the increasing on-line availability of various biomedical data sources, the ability to federate heterogeneous and distributed data sources becomes critical to support multi-centric studies and translational research in medicine. The CrEDIBLE project organises 3 thematic working days in October 8-10 in Sophia Antipolis (near to Nice, France) where experts are invited to present their latest work and discuss their approaches. The aim is to gather scientists from all disciplines involved in the set up of distributed and heterogeneous medical data sharing systems (medical data representation, data mediation, data stores federation, data semantics, workflows, … towards biomedical data integration), to provide an overview of this broad and complex area, to assess the state-of-the-art methods and technologies addressing it, and to discuss the open scientific questions it raises.

The methods for biomedical data distribution considered in the context of CrEDIBLE are:

– Modelling: ontology-based extensible data models.
– Federation: the (virtual) fusion of geographically spread data stores which should appear to end users as a unique and coherent data source.
– Mediation: the semantic alignment of heterogeneous data sources, which were often designed independently from each other.
– Querying: the description of distributed data sets, defined through data retrieval queries that apply on the whole federated system.

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