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jvsoest edited this page Dec 5, 2016 · 11 revisions

Welcome to the RDF Clinical Data Integration Tutorial wiki!

In this tutorial, we will give an example how to convert data from clinical databases, images (DICOM), and image-derived information into RDF. Afterwards, we will explain how to retrieve all data in one query.

Tutorial Prerequisites

To follow/perform this tutorial, please have the following prerequisites installed:

  • Java JDK 1.8 installed and configured
  • PostgreSQL installed and configured (using username/password postgres/postgres)
  • Command line access on the specific computer
  • WiFi / Internet connection (to open the tutorial pages & download contents)

Tutorial sections

Please click the sections below to follow/perform the tutorial.

The tutorial is divided into 6 sections:

  1. Conversion of clinical data
  2. Conversion of DICOM metadata
  3. Calculation & storage of DICOM derived information
  4. Querying clinical data
  5. Querying Clinical + DICOM metadata
  6. Querying Clinical + DICOM metadata + DICOM derived information

After these sections regarding federation of vertically partitioned data, the final section describes horizontal federation.

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