Transcript TMO Paper Review For Publication in

TMO Paper Review
For Publication in:
Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Eric Rozell, Tetherless World Constellation
Outline
• Journal Scope
• Paper Review
JBMS Scope
• Infrastructure for biomedical semantics, focusing on
semantic resources and repositories, meta-data
management and resource description, knowledge
representation and semantic frameworks, Biomedical
Semantic Web, semantic interoperability, and
particularly, life-long management of semantic
resources.
• Semantic mining, annotation and analysis, focusing
on approaches and applications of semantic
resources and tools for investigation, reasoning,
prediction and discoveries in biomedicine.
Scientific Quality
• Are the methods appropriate and presented in
sufficient detail to allow the results to be repeated?
– Ontology design process is not described well enough to be
repeatable.
– More details on moving from research questions to use
cases to ontology.
• Are the data adequate to support the conclusions?
– Scalability of the knowledge base and reasoning techniques
is not addressed.
– The data uses only a small number of patient records.
– However, work focused on integrative vocabulary, and not a
production ready system.
Presentations
• Figures: Are they justified? Are they sharp, with
lettering proportionate to the size of the figure? Are
there legends to explain the figures?
– The syntax of Figure 1 is not clear (e.g., the dark blue lines,
and the distinction, if any, between vocabularies and
datasets)
– I couldn’t find a reference to Figure 4, and its significance is
not explained well in the figure caption.
• Tables: Can they be simplified or condensed? Should
any be omitted?
– The content in Table 2 does not seem particularly significant,
especially since all class mappings are not provided, and it is
cluttered and hard to read.
Research Violations
• Are the interviews for the development of use cases
and research questions classified as research
involving human subjects?
Confidential Comments
• Provide comments regarding the novelty and
significance of the manuscript.
– Integrates diverse medical datasets
– Details on methods for data integration
– Provides use cases for eHRs and integrates eHRs with external
data resources
• Provide a recommendation about the manuscript’s
suitability for publication in the journal; these
comments will not be returned to the author(s).
– Has broad coverage of Semantic Web technology applications
– Could have more emphasis on the tools that will utilize the
technologies presented
Comments for Author
• Comments above (except confidential comments)
• Authors did not address potential for error in external
resources, nor future plans for handling versioning on
these resources.