The converted GHO data is now available at http://gho.aksw.org/. After converting the entire GHO data, an RDF dataset containing almost 8 million triples was obtained. Following is the example of a single statistical item, the death value of 1098, from the GHO dataset represented using the Data Cube vocabulary:

gho:o1     a           qb:Observation;
       gho:Country     Afghanistan;
       gho:stat_pop    24076;
       gho:Disease     All Causes;
       gho:incidence   18437.

gho:Country    a    qb:DimensionProperty;
                    rdfs:label    "Country".

gho:Disease    a    qb:DimensionProperty;
                    rdfs:label    "Disease".

Further Information

• This is a short presentation describing the process of conversion of the CSV files to RDF using SCOVO (Statistical Core Vocabulary) in OntoWiki. SCOVO is an earlier version of the Data Cube Vocabulary and the conversion process is similar for both.
• This is a position paper that was accepted for a presentation at the Ontologies in Biomedicine and Life Sciences workshop held at Mannheim (Germany) from September 9 – 10, 2010.
• The dataset description has been published here.
• This dataset is also part of the LODD datasets.