Hello all - I am looking for help evaluating Virtuoso and RDF(S) more generally for data integration purposes in the life sciences and pharmaceutical space. We are out of bandwidth to do evaluation this internally, and I haven't been able to find a "Virtuoso consultants directory" or anything of that sort, so several colleagues suggested I post to this list to see whether anyone might be interested in helping out.
Our project is solidly grounded in the types of data integration tasks described by the HCLS group (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/), and we've been drawn to Virtuoso largely based on the successes reported to that community by Alan Ruttenberg and others. We would like to test out a set of specific use cases based on real-world industry needs from our market (pharma / biotech, drug discovery R&D), with a particular focus on a large infectious disease project we are working on. Generally speaking, we are focused on the data integration use cases (i.e. answer integrated biology, chemistry and drug queries across local and distributed datasets in various formats, presumably via SPARQL endpoints and/or appropriate RDFization of the data). We have some funding for this effort and would prefer to work with someone local (we are in the Bay Area), however we are primarily looking for someone with experience in both Virtuoso and the life sciences space. We need someone who can do a hands on implementation, not an evangelist. And if there is a different forum or jobs board where Virtuoso hackers tend to spend their time, I'd be very interested in that as well - I haven't found a lot of hits on Monster.com etc. Thank you in advance for your help! Ramon ____________________________________ Ramon M. Felciano, PhD Founder and SVP, Research INGENUITY Systems, Inc. 1700 Seaport Blvd., 3rd Floor Redwood City, CA 94063 650.381.5100 phone 650.963.3399 fax E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
