United States of America

Homepage: https://www.usa.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

Twitter: https://twitter.com/USAgov

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_agencies_in_the_United_States

Legislative Branch

Homepage: https://www.congress.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress

Senate

Homepage: https://www.senate.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate

House of Representatives

Homepage: http://www.house.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives

Executive Branch

President

Homepage: https://www.whitehouse.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States

Twitter: https://twitter.com/POTUS

Vice President

Homepage: https://www.whitehouse.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States

Twitter: https://twitter.com/VP

Chief Information Officer

Homepage: https://cio.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Chief_Information_Officer_of_the_United_States

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ciodotgov

see: https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering.html

Chief Data Scientist

• Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

see:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_science
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_data
• https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science.html

Chief Technology Officer

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Technology_Officer_of_the_United_States

see: https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/information-systems.html

General Services Administration

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Services_Administration

18F

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18F

Homepage: https://18f.gsa.gov/

Src: https://github.com/18F

• Src: https://open-source-program.18f.gov/
• Web: https://github.com/18F/open-source-program
  • https://open-source-program.18f.gov/pages/resources/
  • 18F’s Open Source Policy: https://github.com/18F/open-source-policy/blob/master/policy.md
  • 18F Open Source Style Guide: https://open-source-guide.18f.gov/

See:

• US Digital Service (USDS)

US Web Design Standards

Wikipedia: https://standards.usa.gov/

Src: https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards

• https://github.com/18F/web-design-standards/releases

Judicial Branch

Homepage: http://www.uscourts.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_judiciary_of_the_United_States

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept

Supreme Court

Homepage: http://www.supremecourt.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States

Court of Appeals

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_courts_of_appeals

District Court

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_district_court

United States

Nebraska

• Nebraska
  • Unicameral Legislature
  • Governor
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Nebraska Information Technology Commission
  • Ideas
    • CS as STEM credit for HS graduation
      • What about creating computer games?
      • CS skills for STEM fields
    • Linked Curricula Graphs
    • schema.org/Course
    • OpenBadges
    • OpenBadges Backpack

Cool Projects

US Digital Service

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Digital_Service

Homepage: https://www.whitehouse.gov/digital/united-states-digital-service

Src: https://github.com/usds

Twitter: https://twitter.com/USDS

Medium: https://medium.com/@USDigitalService

US Digital Service (USDS) is a part of the Executive Branch (President) which provides information technology consultation services for the federal government.

See: * US Digital Services Playbook * 18F

US Digital Services Playbook

Homepage: https://playbook.cio.gov/

Source: https://github.com/usds/playbook

1. Understand what people need
2. Address the whole experience, from start to finish
3. Make it simple and intuitive
4. Build the service using agile and iterative practices
5. Structure budgets and contracts to support delivery
6. Assign one leader and hold that person accountable
7. Bring in experienced teams
8. Choose a modern technology stack
9. Deploy in a flexible hosting environment
10. Automate testing and deployments
11. Manage security and privacy through reusable processes
12. Use data to drive decisions
13. Default to open

See: U.S. Digital Services Playbook

Data

US Digital Registry

Homepage: https://usdigitalregistry.digitalgov.gov/

U.S. Digital Registry is a database of official US federal government social media accounts.

USAspending.gov

Homepage: https://www.usaspending.gov

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Funding_Accountability_and_Transparency_Act_of_2006

Download: https://www.usaspending.gov/DownloadCenter/Pages/DataDownload.aspx

Docs: https://www.usaspending.gov/about/Pages/TheData.aspx

Docs: https://www.usaspending.gov/about/GetStarted/Pages/WhatYouWillNotFind.aspx

USAspending.gov is the publicly accessible, searchable website mandated by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to give the American public access to information on how their tax dollars are spent.

• https://www.usaspending.gov/transparency/Pages/SpendingMap.aspx

Performance.gov

Homepage: https://www.performance.gov/

• https://www.performance.gov/clear_goals
• https://www.performance.gov/agencies
• https://www.performance.gov/node/3406 Climate Change
• https://www.performance.gov/node/3404 STEM Education
• https://www.performance.gov/content/increase-nation%E2%80%99s-data-science-capacity Data Science
• https://www.performance.gov/federalprograminventory
• https://www.performance.gov/api

Data.gov

Homepage: https://www.data.gov

Source: https://github.com/GSA/data.gov

Docs: https://www.data.gov/developers/apis

Twitter: https://twitter.com/usdatagov

• http://www.data.gov/food
• http://www.data.gov/business
• http://www.data.gov/climate
• http://www.data.gov/consumer
• http://www.data.gov/ecosystems
• http://www.data.gov/education
• http://www.data.gov/energy
• http://www.data.gov/finance
• http://www.data.gov/health
• http://www.data.gov/local
• http://www.data.gov/manufacturing
• http://www.data.gov/ocean
• http://www.data.gov/safety
• http://www.data.gov/research

API.data.gov

Homepage: https://api.data.gov/

Src: https://github.com/NREL/api-umbrella

Docs: https://github.com/NREL/api-umbrella/wiki/About-api.data.gov

API.data.gov is an API for US federal government APIs.

Project Open Data

Homepage: https://project-open-data.cio.gov/

Source: https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjectOpenData

• https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/ (JSON (-> JSON-LD -> RDF))
  • https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json (JSON)
  • https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld (JSON-LD)
• https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/metadata-resources/#field-mappings
  • POD, CKAN, DCAT RDF, http://schema.org RDF

ckanext-datajson

Source: https://github.com/HHS/ckanext-datajson

ckanext-datajson is a CKAN extension to generate Project Open Data Data.gov JSON and JSON-LD from CKAN.

• /data.json
• /data.jsonld

seeAlso:

• CKAN:

  Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKAN

  Docs: https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/knowledge-engineering#ckan

REST API Standards

Source: https://github.com/whitehouse/api-standards

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer

DICE

Source: https://github.com/ngageoint/disconnected-content-explorer-android

Source: https://github.com/ngageoint/disconnected-content-explorer-ios

Disconnected Interactive Content Explorer (DICE) is an app for iOS, Android, and Windows that allows users to load interactive content generated in HTML, CSS, and Javascript to a mobile device so the device can display interactive content without a network connection.

Apache Accumulo

Homepage: https://accumulo.apache.org/

Source: https://github.com/apache/accumulo

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Accumulo

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApacheAccumulo

• “Rya” (RDF Linked Data)

Library of Congress

Homepage: http://www.loc.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress

Twitter: https://twitter.com/librarycongress

• http://catalog.loc.gov/
• http://id.loc.gov/download/ (RDF Linked Data)

5 ★ Linked Open Data

http://5stardata.info/

• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#x5-star-linked-open-data
• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#linked-data-principles
• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#comma-separated-values-csv (CSV)
• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#rdf (RDF)
• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#rdfa (RDFa)
• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#json (JSON)
• http://www.w3.org/TR/ld-glossary/#json-ld (JSON-LD)

Health

Precision Medicine Initiative

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-precision-medicine-initiative

• More and better treatments for cancer
• Creation of a voluntary national research cohort
• Commitment to protecting privacy
• Regulatory modernization
• Public-private partnerships
• #precisionmedicine

Personal Health Agenda

Twitter: https://twitter.com/westurner

Goals

• Maximize utility of health data (through network effects)

• Ask and answer questions to improve outcomes

• Support case-history-aware epidemiological meta-analyses [“controlling for factors”, “systematic review”] (PRISMA, QUOROM)

• Support “Meta-research” #metaresearch [“workflow”, “process knowledge”]

  • PLoS meta-research collection: http://collections.plos.org/meta-research

    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLOS
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/PLOSbiology

    • “Meta-Research: Broadening the Scope of PLOS Biology” (2016) http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002334

  • PloS #TenSimpleRules

    • Homepage: http://collections.plos.org/ten-simple-rules
    • Hashtag: #TenSimpleRules
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/TenSimpleRules
    • https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science#ten-simple-rules

  • #LinkedReproducibility

    • https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/data-science#linked-reproducibility

Objectives

• Link available resources together with common identifiers and vocabulary [“URIs”, “Linked Data”, “Semantic Web”, “RDF”, “RDFa”]
  • http://www.w3.org/wiki/HCLSIG/LODD/Data
  • #LinkedReproducibility
• Add RDFa tags to existing HTML templates [“Linked Data”, “MedicalEntity”]
• Lookup relevant datasets
• Lookup relevant datasets across languages and coding systems
• Encourage sharing of non-PHI data
• Encourage sharing of non-PHI data with units
• Lookup and automatedly analyze relevant datasets (before reading an abstract or a conclusion) with a number of models and random seeds [“blind statistical analysis”, “masked statistical analysis”]
• Develop an RDFS vocabulary for describing study controls and protocols with URIs [“Study Protocol”]
  • MedicalStudy, MedicalObservationalStudy, MedicalTrial
  • RCT?
  • Which groups were masked? (single, double, triple is not sufficient)
  • [...]
    • https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/492
    • https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/blob/sdo-deimos/data/ext/health-lifesci/health_core-0.3.rdfa
• Develop RDFS vocabulary predicates for linking between similar and concurring / discordant reproductions of studies [“Reproducibility”, “Repeatability”]
  • [ ]
• Develop a platform for collaborative systematic review
  • Linked Data (RDF)
  • OpenAnnotation
  • Structured Reviews
  • #LinkedReproducibility

Healthcare.gov (HHS CMMS)

Homepage: https://www.healthcare.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov

Docs: https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HealthCareGov

• [ ] TODO: create RDFa vocabulary for health plans
• [ ] TODO: add RDFa to individual plan pages
• [ ] TODO: search engine to index RDFa vocabulary
• [ ] TODO: encourage carriers to add RDFa to describe their servcies

Medline Plus (NIH NLM)

Homepage: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedlinePlus

Twitter: https://twitter.com/medlineplus

• Health Info: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthtopics.html
• Drug Info: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/videosandcooltools.html
• TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)
  • parse_medline.py: https://github.com/westurner/healthref/blob/gh-pages/parse_medline.py
  • [ ] see the schema.org types listed under OpenFDA (FDA)

PubMed (NIH NLM NCBI)

Homepage: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PubMed

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ncbi_pubmed

MeshRDF

Source: https://github.com/HHS/meshrdf

Homepage: https://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/

Docs: https://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/concepts.html

Docs: https://hhs.github.io/meshrdf/release-notes.html

• http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/mesh_rdf_beta_2015.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_Subject_Headings

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_MeSH_codes

  • http://schema.org/code

    “A medical code for the entity, taken from a controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH, SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.”

PubMed and Schema.org RDF

• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3745940/ (RDF Linked Data)
• TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalWebPage
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalEntity
  • Supports MESH through http://schema.org/MedicalCode
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalScholarlyArticle
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalStudy
    • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalObservationalStudy
    • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalTrial

ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH NLM)

Homepage: https://clinicaltrials.gov

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClinicalTrials.gov

• http://linkedct.org/ (RDF linked data (delayed; third-party))
  • http://data.linkedct.org/sparql
• TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalTrial

UMLS (NIH NLM)

Homepage: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Medical_Language_System

• https://github.com/ncbo/umls2rdf (RDF Linked Data)
• TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalWebPage

National Cancer Institute (NIH NCI)

Homepage: http://www.cancer.gov/

Source: https://github.com/NCIP

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cancer_Institute

Twitter: https://twitter.com/theNCI

LexEVS (NIH NCI)

Docs: https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/LexEVS/LexEVS+6.x+Architecture

Source: https://github.com/NCIP/LexEVS

• https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/LexEVS/LexEVS+6.x+OWL+Export+Guide (RDF Linked Data)
• TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalWebPage

OpenFDA (FDA)

Homepage: https://open.fda.gov/

Source: https://github.com/FDA/openfda

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openFDA

• https://open.fda.gov/api/reference/ (JSON Data)

  • [ ] TODO: http://json-ld.org/ @context -> RDF Linked Data
    • https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/5
    • https://github.com/westurner/elasticsearchjsonld
    • https://github.com/westurner/openfda-jsonld-testing

• [ ] TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)

  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalWebPage
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalDevice
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalTherapy
    • [ ] http://schema.org/Drug
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalCondition
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalIndication
    • [ ] http://schema.org/ApprovedIndication
    • [ ] http://schema.org/PreventionIndication
    • [ ] http://schema.org/TreatmentIndication
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalContraindication
  • [ ] http://schema.org/adverseOutcome
  • [ ] http://schema.org/seriousAdverseOutcome
  • [ ] http://schema.org/MedicalSignOrSymptom

• [x] BLD: Dockerfiles for testing

  https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/45

• [ ] ENH: Adverse Event Count / Prescription Count Heatmap

  https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/49

HealthData.gov (HHS)

Homepage: http://www.healthdata.gov/

• http://www.healthdata.gov/dataset/search
• http://hub.healthdata.gov/
• http://hub.healthdata.gov/data.json
  • https://github.com/HHS/ckanext-datajson (Project Open Data JSON)
• [ ] TODO: http://schema.org/docs/meddocs.html (RDFa Linked Data)
• seeAlso: Data.gov

GNUHealth

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Health

Homepage: http://health.gnu.org/

Src: https://savannah.gnu.org/hg/?group=health

GNU Health is a Free Health and Hospital Information System

• Electronic Health Record
• Hospital Information System
• Health Information System

.

• Open Source
• Written in Python
• PostgreSQL Database
• Desktop Client: Windows / OSX / Linux (GTK)
• Android Client
• Web Interface

EPA

Homepage: http://www.epa.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Environmental_Protection_Agency

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EPA

• http://www.epa.gov/datafinder/
• http://www.epa.gov/airdata/
  • http://aqsdr1.epa.gov/aqsweb/aqstmp/airdata/download_files.html (CSV Data)
    • TODO: http://www.w3.org/TR/csv2rdf/ + Metadata -> RDF Linked Data

MyPlate (USDA)

Homepage: http://www.ChooseMyPlate.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyPlate

Science & Technology

OSTP

Office of Science and Technology Policy

Homepage: http://www.ostp.gov/

Homepage: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Science_and_Technology_Policy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/whitehouseostp

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pressroom
• https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast
  • https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pcast/docsreports
    • http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/09/26/pcast-examines-technology-targeting-job-skills-training-and-matching-talent-jobs
    • http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/05/29/new-pcast-report-says-systems-engineering-can-improve-health-care

OpenStack

Homepage: http://www.openstack.org/

Source: https://github.com/openstack

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStack

Twitter: https://twitter.com/openstack

OpenStack is an Open Source cloud infrastructure platform started as a public-private partnership between NASA and Rackspace.

• The first two components were named OpenStack Compute (NASA Nebula) and OpenStack Swift (Rackspace CloudFiles)

• NASA now contracts out much of the cloud computing workload to privately managed OpenStack cloud providers.

  https://www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/

NASA

Homepage: http://www.nasa.gov/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nasa

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
• http://spinoff.nasa.gov/
• http://instagram.com/nasa

In-Q-Tel

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel

Healthcare

• Healthcare in the United States
  • Global Comparatives
    • Raw Statistics
    • Structured Rankings
  • Health Insurance in the United States
    • Health Insurance Programs
      • Medicare
      • Medicaid
      • Tricare
      • VA
      • Federal Employees Health Benefits
      • Group Health Plans
      • COBRA
      • Federal Black Lung Benefits
      • Correctional Healthcare
    • PPACA
      • Healthcare.gov
      • Health Information Exchange
      • Minimum Medical Loss Ratio
  • Challenges
    • Conflict of Interest
    • Data Interchange
    • Medical Loss Ratio
    • Preventative Care
    • “They”
  • Alternative Plans