The SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework builds a complete ecosystem around Semantic Web technologies to make health-related data FAIR. From an Excel-based SPHN Dataset, SPHN projects need to create an RDF schema, related SHACL rules for helping data validation, SPARQL for data exploration, and, ideally, documentation to visualize the schema better. To ease the learning curve, the SPHN Data Coordination Center (DCC) provides training and builds tools to automate the generation of some steps.
Recently, SPHN released a tool for automating the whole process. The SPHN Schema Forge is a web service that facilitates the work of SPHN projects to generate RDF schemas and related components. It automatically creates the elements by only taking as input an Excel file compliant with the SPHN Dataset. The SPHN Schema Forge integrates the majority of tools developed at the DCC.
In addition, the DCC released the Dataset2RDF. The tool translates concepts and composedOfs into appropriate classes and properties and represents meaning binding, value set binding, and cardinalities using OWL constructs. Additionally, the tool supports the parsing of a project-specific Dataset to generate a project-specific RDF schema, making it accessible to any SPHN project.
The SPHN Schema Forge is accessible at: https://schemaforge.dcc.sib.swiss/, and the documentation is available at https://sphn-semantic-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sphn_framework/schemaforge.html.
The Dataset2RDF tool is accessible on GitLab via https://git.dcc.sib.swiss/sphn-semantic-framework/dataset2rdf and is open-source under the GPLv3 license. The documentation is available at https://sphn-semantic-framework.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sphn_framework/dataset2rdf.html.
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