Grants:TPS/fustbariclation/SMWCon Spring 2014

User name

Fustbariclation

User location (country)

South Africa

Event name

SMWCon Spring 2014

Event Web site

https://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Spring_2014

Event date(s)

21st - 23rd of May

Event location (city)

Montréal, Canada

Amount requested (remember to specify currency!)

UK pounds £1133

Endorsements

I am the program chair for SMWCon Spring 2014. I think this individual, situated in a health system that is using Semantic Mediawiki, will have useful contributions to the conference, and due to their distant location should receive travel support. Thanks.

--Vid (talk) 21:48, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Budget breakdown

• Travel: £2000 (flight) return flight BA Cape Town -> Montréal, Canada
• Accommodation: £65 per night x 4 nights = £260

The flight is 'premium economy' because I have had two DVTs (Deep Vein Thromboses) and so am at increased risk of another one on flights over 9 hours long, particularly in standard economy. The economy fare is £873. If it was not possible to allow this exception to the policy for health reasons, I'd do my best to fund the difference.

• Reducing it to economy gives £1133

Proposed Participation

KEY QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED: How would your participation at this event further the Wikimedia Mission?

There are two possible areas that I'd be happy to cover as presentations and/or discussions:

1. SMW and Healthcare

Special considerations, such as patient safety, confidentiality and informed consent apply in Healthcare.

The SMW offers a number of possible approaches to addressing these and improving Healthcare. Examples include, checklists, which research has shown to be a means of reducing clinical error considerably.

The SMW could help specifically in:

incident management to measure clinical metrics and identify root causes for poor outcomes and 'never events' raising semantically based alerts from checklists, enabling 'red flag' combinations of factors to be identified in real time separating clinically relevant data from confidential patient data to enable clinical decisions, clinical research and clinical governance providing consistent measurement of outcomes and relating them to treatment regimes, and environments

2. SMW and a service industry ontology

I'm one of the founder members and organisers of a team that's working, with crowd-sourcing now, to produce an ontology for services.

At the moment we're working on the meta-model, and the next step will be to start developing, or helping develop, architectures based on that, from which we intend to develop an ontology, or ontologies. We're using the SMW as a collaboration platform now ( http://takingserviceforward.org/wiki//index.php?title=Adaptive_Service_Model ) but one of the reasons for doing that is that I'd like to explore developing the ontology in the SMW, which I think would be more approachable and easier to use than RDF repositories or triplestores. Something like this http://ontorule-project.eu/showcase/AUDI_Business_Orchestration_Scenario - but with the ontology kept as properties and, ideally, views produced automatically in BPMN (not as in the ontorule project as included static graphics files).

The content for this project is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Goal and Expected Impact

The goal is to raise awareness of the requirements in this area to further discussion of these requirements and, ideally, to start developing solutions to meet these requirements for Healthcare and/or the service industry

KEY QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED: What will be accomplished if your participation is successful?

If successful, those attending will consider joining in developing requirements in more detail and identifying solutions that might meet these requirements, both in the short and long term.