An overall objective of the European research programmes in the sixth framework has been the identification and filling of gaps in the European research infrastructure, to facilitate cross-fertilisation between scientific disciplines and to establish a durable structure for such a collaborative approach. SemanticMining is composed of partners from computer science, systems engineering, biomedical informatics, and public health care organisations, all bringing their experience and in-depths knowledge together into a common framework. A bridging activity addressed was knowledge transfer and co-operation between academia and organisations in the health and welfare sector, including standardisation bodies and the different public and private institutions involved in health care delivery and management. The national institutes and organisations responsible for policy making and quality management with a regulatory function will have an important role to play in the exchange of ideas and experiences.
A main concern of SemanticMining has been semantic interoperability in communication between health care information systems. The long-term goal of SemanticMining has been the development of generic methods and tools supporting the critical tasks of the field: data mining, knowledge discovery, knowledge representation, abstraction and indexing of information, semantic-based information retrieval in a complex and high-dimensional information space.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.semanticmining.org
Project co-ordinator:
Hans Åhlfeldt (Linköping University, Sweden)
Partners:
SemanticMining is based on the partnership of 23 partners from 11 European countries with approximately 100 identified researchers (25 female) and 35 associated PhD students (10 female).
Timetable: from 01/2004 - to 06/2007
Total cost: 6,384,000
EC funding: 5,000,000
Instrument: NoE
Project Identifier: IST-2002-507505