Cochrane PICO Annotator

Chris Mavergames, Head of Informatics & Knowledge ManagementCochrane Informatics & Knowledge Management Department#CochraneTech Symposium 2014, Hyderabad, India

Rapid presentation

Lightning background: Linked data project

PICO annotations (tags) of parts of the review (and eventually of studies in the CRS)

Using controlled vocabularies with ontologies, we become more interoperable with other systems

Tags can be used to improve discoverability of reviews

Has implications for review production

PICO

PICO2.0

PICO Annotator tooldemo

Live API call to Archie

Type-ahead – call to linked data triple store

Reveals term browser tool

Pharmacological

Pharmacological

Pharmacological

Pharmacological

Pharmacological

Next steps…

Annotate backlog of reviews Machine-assisted approach (entity recognition) Supervised by TSCs/information specialists

Start to look at how to integrate annotation into the workflow

Annotating studies in the CRS, potentially helping to “harmonize” other metadata around studies

Eventually, a fully-PICO annotation driven process through to guidelines as well

Build derivative products, new views, and interfaces for Cochrane knowledge and data

Cochrane is future-proofed (and leads, via PICO ontology) for semantic web/linked data future

Thank you