Semantic Web Clinical Trials Demo

(using SIMILE's Exhibit)

This demo is part of the W3C HCLSIG DSE activity and illustrates how clinical trials data formatted as RDF can be visualized. It takes advantage of MIT's SIMILE's Exhibit technology, and shows how easy it is to merge and visualize aggregated data (graphs) through the Web.

The demo consists of 3 connected HTML views around the same data aggregate written as Exhibit templates (see tutorial): Demography, Treatments, and Adverse Events. The pages each lens the data, using view components such as tables, scatterplots, and timelines. A sample of the HTML code for invoking these components on select data can be seen here. Here one sees two types of Exhibit components, views and facets, used to render and filter data. The views are best seen using the Firefox browser.

The data used to generate the interactive views is in json format and can be viewed here. It originally came in the form of three Excel files, which were then converted and merged using Simile's Babel converter.