Abstract
Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) have long been a test-bed for the standards proposed by the W3C to build the Semantic Web1: since HCLS is descriptive by nature and its descriptions have traditionally been produced according to ad-hoc schemas in isolated resources, HCLS offers an ideal use case for technologies like RDF2, SPARQL3 and OWL4 [1,4]. This “marriage” of the HCLS domain with semantic technologies has resulted in a collection of resources that can be regarded as an HCLS-focused working implementation of the idea of the Semantic Web: the socalled Life Sciences Semantic Web (LSSW). As part of the process of implementing the LSSW, the HCLS community has adopted the Linked Data practices to publish information in a machine-friendly and linkable fashion [3], as a “down-to-earth” version of a prospective fully-fledged Semantic Web. This has resulted in members of the HCLS community, like the W3C HCLS Interest Group5, considerably contributing to the Linked Open Data (LOD) endeavour, with datasets like Bio2RDF [2] and Linked Open Drug Data (LODD) [5]. As the LOD network grows, producers and consumers alike are facing new challenges regarding interoperable vocabularies, filtering, graphical interfaces,
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