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Keynote	
  
	
  
Mark A. Musen, M.D., Ph.D: Semantic Technology Goes
Mainstream: The NCBO Experience	
  
	
  
	
  
The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) is one of seven National Centers for
Biomedical Computing in the United States supported by the National Institutes of Health. As
workers in biomedicine recognize the importance of creating structured representations of the
entities and the relationships among entities in experimental domains, the NCBO is
developing the semantic technologies to use those representations to drive in a wide range of
applications in data annotation, data integration, information retrieval, natural-language
processing, and decision support. The NCBO is creating Web-based software to facilitate the
archiving, peer review, and application of ontologies by workers in biomedicine. In recent
years, the use of NCBO resources has been growing exponentially. Currently, more than
65,000 visitors browse the BioPortal ontology repository each month, many of whom seem to
visit the site nearly every day. Each month, the NCBO handles more than 3 million Web
service calls. Learning what all these users are doing with NCBO technology provides an
opportunity to track the requirements of the Semantic Web community in health care and the
life sciences. The NCBO continues to explore methods to obtain more information about
these users and their needs in an attempt to anticipate trends in the work of biomedical
scientists who are embracing semantic technology.

Dr. Musen is Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Stanford University, where he is
Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He holds an MD from
Brown University and a PhD from Stanford. Dr. Musen conducts research related to
intelligent systems, the Semantic Web, reusable ontologies and knowledge representations,
and biomedical decision support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé has
led to an open-source technology now used by thousands of developers around the world to
build intelligent computer systems and new computer applications for e-science and the
Semantic Web. He is known for his research on the application of intelligent computer
systems to assist health-care workers in guideline-directed therapy and in management of
clinical trials. He is principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology,
one of the eight National Centers for Biomedical Computing supported by the U.S. National
Institutes of Health. He chairs the Health Informatics and Modeling Topic Advisory Group
for the World Health Organization’s revision of the International Classification of Diseases
(ICD-11). He is a member of the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for
Biomedical Imagine and Bioengineering of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Early in his
career, Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in Medical
Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical Systems and Informatics and a
Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. In 2006, he was recipient
of the Donald A. B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical
Informatics Association. He has been elected to the American College of Medical Informatics
and the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Musen sits on the editorial boards of several
journals related to biomedical informatics and computer science. He is co-editor of the
Handbook of Medical Informatics (Springer-Verlag, 1997) and co-editor-in-chief of the
journal Applied Ontology.	
  

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