The first of three rounds of HealthData.gov’s developer challenges are currently open for submission! Health Data.gov is hosting three rounds of challenges that focus on one of two areas, domain or platform. The first round features two challenges that are putting developers to the test; the first to focus on data integration and liquidity is the Metadata Domain Challenge.
The Metadata Domain Challenge requests the application of existing voluntary consensus data standards for metadata common to all types of government data, and invites new designs for health domain specific metadata to classify datasets in our growing catalog, creating entities, attributes and relations that form the foundations for better discovery, integration and liquidity. Open to submission until October 2, 2012, the winner will demonstrate the application of voluntary consensus and de facto cross domain and domain specific standards to as many of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services datasets available on HealthData.gov. The two objectives are to:
- Apply existing RDF Schema and OWL ontology standards (some found here), and adapt other voluntary consensus and defacto standards for expressing cross domain metadata that is common to all government data; and
- Design new RFD Schemas (and RDFS++) for HHS domain specific metadata based on the data made available on HealthData.gov where no RDF Schema is otherwise given for available.
The second exciting challenge focuses on enhancing the capabilities and technology components of the HealthData.gov platform is the Simplified Sign-On Platform Challenge. This platform specific challenge will result in improved community engagement and easier collaboration to contribute by providing service requestors seamless access to multiple HDP technology components, leveraging new approaches to decentralized authentication. Like the Metadata Challenge, the Simplified Sign-On Challenge is open to submissions until October 2, 2012. When developing, please keep in mind that ideally, the challenge winner will present a replicable open source virtual machine environment demonstrating how HDP components (with an initial emphasis on Virtuoso, Drupal 7, CKAN, OntoWiki, and Solr) can leverage WebID’s, contributing to simplified sign-on for humans and machines. The developer designs how their code might utilize each component as a WebID identity provider or relying party, presumably leveraging existing capabilities to the fullest extent possible. The end result will demonstrate seamless integration across a number of HDP components, without introducing any external service dependencies that couldn’t be solely operated by HHS.
Take the challenge today, and make sure to submit for both of these important challenges for a chance to improve HealthData.gov and win up to $20,000 for first place for each challenge. Domestic and international developers are encouraged to participate. International participants are not eligible for prize money but are eligible to win and be recognized. International participants can partner and collaborate with U.S. organizations or citizens, both of which are eligible, in order to be eligible for prize money.
The next round of HealthData.gov Challenges start in November 2012, but don’t wait until then to participate! More information on the current and future HealthData.gov challenges can be found on the HealthData.gov blog.
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