Semantic Web for Data Harmonization in Chinese Medicine

Overview

Journal Chin Med

Publisher Biomed Central

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2010 Mar 9

PMID 20205772

Citations 2

Authors

Kei-Hoi Cheung

Huajun Chen

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Abstract

Scientific studies to investigate Chinese medicine with Western medicine have been generating a large amount of data to be shared preferably under a global data standard. This article provides an overview of Semantic Web and identifies some representative Semantic Web applications in Chinese medicine. Semantic Web is proposed as a standard for representing Chinese medicine data and facilitating their integration with Western medicine data.

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