Workshop Report: Catalyzing Knowledge-Driven Discovery in Environmental Health Sciences through a Harmonized Language

Stephanie Holmgren (), Shannon M. Bell, Jessica Wignall, Christopher G. Duncan, Richard K. Kwok, Ryan Cronk, Kimberly Osborn, Steven Black, Anne Thessen and Charles Schmitt
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Stephanie Holmgren: Office of Data Science, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham, NC 27709, USA
Shannon M. Bell: Research Triangle Institute, Durham, NC 27709, USA
Jessica Wignall: Health Sciences, ICF, Reston, VA 20190, USA
Christopher G. Duncan: Genes, Environment, and Health Branch, Division of Extramural Research and Training, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham, NC 27709, USA
Richard K. Kwok: Division of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging (NIA), Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Ryan Cronk: Health Sciences, ICF, Reston, VA 20190, USA
Kimberly Osborn: Health Sciences, ICF, Reston, VA 20190, USA
Steven Black: Health Sciences, ICF, Reston, VA 20190, USA
Anne Thessen: Center for Health Artificial Intelligence, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Charles Schmitt: Office of Data Science, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Durham, NC 27709, USA

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 3, 1-22

Abstract: Harmonized language is essential to finding, sharing, and reusing large-scale, complex data. Gaps and barriers prevent the adoption of harmonized language approaches in environmental health sciences (EHS). To address this, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and partners created the Environmental Health Language Collaborative (EHLC). The purpose of EHLC is to facilitate a community-driven effort to advance the development and adoption of harmonized language approaches in EHS. EHLC is a forum to pinpoint language harmonization gaps, to facilitate the development of, raise awareness of, and encourage the use of harmonization approaches and tools, and to develop new standards and recommendations. To ensure that EHLC’s focus and structure would be sustainable long-term and meet the needs of the field, EHLC launched an inaugural workshop in September 2021 focused on “Developing Sustainable Language Solutions” and “Building a Sustainable Community”. When the attendees were surveyed, 91% said harmonized language solutions would be of high value/benefit, and 60% agreed to continue contributing to EHLC efforts. Based on workshop discussions, future activities will focus on targeted collaborative use-case working groups in addition to offering education and training on ontologies, metadata, and standards, and developing an EHS language resource portal.

Keywords: FAIR data; harmonized language; impact network; ontology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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