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Linked Clinical Trials (LinkedCT) project aims at publishing the first
open Semantic Web data source for clinical trials data. The data
exposed by LinkedCT is generated by (1) transforming existing data
sources of clinical trials into RDF, and (2) discovering links between
the records in the trials data and several other data sources. Our
system uses some of the technology from
our xCurator
project.
The LinkedCT data space is published according to the principles of
publishing Linked Data. These principles greatly enhance adaptability
and usability of data on the web. Each entity in LinkedCT is
identified by a unique HTTP dereferenceable Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI). When the URI is looked up, related RDF statements
about the entity is returned in HTML or RDF/XML based on the user’s
agent. Moreover, a SPARQL endpoint is provided as the standard access
method for RDF data.
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