Metadata and Layers
I have been wandering around over the last six months or so with a couple of pictures in my head that I have at last managed to commit to paper. The pictures in question try and explain why we would want to layer our metadata and through the layers link data standards and, ultimately, why [...]
eSource and a Patent
A few days ago I was alerted to a discussion thread on LinkedIn by a good friend. I started reading and became increasingly alarmed by what I found. The thread can be found here. Please read the thread. My concern is based around a commercial organization taking out a patent on work that I consider [...]
The FDA and a Round World
The term “round data” conjures up many images. Coined, I believe, by the FDA about three years ago, there is no precise definition of this term. If I asked five people what does “round data” mean, I would probably get six opinions, some abuse and I would probably be reluctant to ask the question ever [...]
Blogs & eSource: some ponderings
Over the last few months, Dave and I have been working hard and as a consequence our blogging has not been as prolific as it has been in past months. However, like all good ‘bloggers’ we continue to read the blogs of others with fervour. So I have been intrigued by a few posts in [...]
Educating the Ontologically Challenged, Part 2
At last I get the chance to write the first answer to the series of questions I, along with Kerstin, posed in the first blog post in this series The question was “What is the semantic web and linked data?” So first of all Kerstin suggested that I read an article An Intro To The [...]
Searching for an eClinical Vision?
I am just preparing the first blog covering my journey in to the semantic web and that should be with you later this week or early next week. However, something that has cropped up a few times in recent weeks is the question of vision. In more definite terms, what should we be doing as [...]
Educating the Ontologically Challenged …
… Or Making Dave Iberson-Hurst Ontologically Aware! Triples, RDF, Owl, Ontology, Linked Data, Semantic Web. I’ll stop because I think I have just exhausted my knowledge of the semantic web; I am not even sure that I have the right title for this Blog. What I do know is that the topic of the “semantic [...]
Communicating the Value of Standards
To me the need for standards in clinical research seems well, quite frankly, obvious but perhaps that comes of working with CDISC for 5 years. In the past few months, I have come to understand that there are many reasons why companies struggle to implement standards and what interests me most, is that it is [...]
FDA – Just Tell Me What You Want
“I just want to know what we need to do?”, “why can’t they tell me what they want?”, “are standards mandated?”, “do we need to be CDISC compliant next year?” These are some of the questions I hear at clients and conferences. And the organisation being referred to is of course the FDA. Well good [...]
eClinical Plug and Play
If you have ever owned a mobile (cell) phone have a look in the draw at home, you know the one, the one filled with all the old chargers that only worked with one phone. I know I have one. Shortly, in Europe, this will be a thing of the past with the introduction of [...]
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