Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Chinese medicine (CM) draws growing attention from Western healthcare practitioners and patients. However, the integration of CM knowledge and Western medicine (WM) has been hindered by a barrier of languages and cultures as well as...
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| author | Zhao Jun |
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| description | <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Chinese medicine (CM) draws growing attention from Western healthcare practitioners and patients. However, the integration of CM knowledge and Western medicine (WM) has been hindered by a barrier of languages and cultures as well as a lack of scientific evidence for CM's efficacy and safety. In addition, most of CM knowledge published with relational database technology makes the integration of databases even more challenging.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Linked Data approach was used in publishing CM knowledge. This approach was applied to publishing a CM linked dataset, namely RDF-TCM <url>http://www.open-biomed.org.uk/rdf-tcm/</url> based on TCMGeneDIT, which provided association information about CM in English.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The Linked Data approach made CM knowledge accessible through standards-compliant interfaces to facilitate the bridging of CM and WM. The open and programmatically-accessible RDF-TCM facilitated the creation of new data mash-up and novel federated query applications.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Publishing CM knowledge in Linked Data provides a point of departure for integration of CM databases.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8243fc2aeaf2494599a9c262b608745b2022-12-21T18:27:51ZengBMCChinese Medicine1749-85462010-07-01512710.1186/1749-8546-5-27Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the WebZhao Jun<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Chinese medicine (CM) draws growing attention from Western healthcare practitioners and patients. However, the integration of CM knowledge and Western medicine (WM) has been hindered by a barrier of languages and cultures as well as a lack of scientific evidence for CM's efficacy and safety. In addition, most of CM knowledge published with relational database technology makes the integration of databases even more challenging.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Linked Data approach was used in publishing CM knowledge. This approach was applied to publishing a CM linked dataset, namely RDF-TCM <url>http://www.open-biomed.org.uk/rdf-tcm/</url> based on TCMGeneDIT, which provided association information about CM in English.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The Linked Data approach made CM knowledge accessible through standards-compliant interfaces to facilitate the bridging of CM and WM. The open and programmatically-accessible RDF-TCM facilitated the creation of new data mash-up and novel federated query applications.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Publishing CM knowledge in Linked Data provides a point of departure for integration of CM databases.</p>http://www.cmjournal.org/content/5/1/27 |
| spellingShingle | Zhao Jun Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web Chinese Medicine |
| title | Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web |
| title_full | Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web |
| title_fullStr | Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web |
| title_full_unstemmed | Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web |
| title_short | Publishing Chinese medicine knowledge as Linked Data on the Web |
| title_sort | publishing chinese medicine knowledge as linked data on the web |
| url | http://www.cmjournal.org/content/5/1/27 |
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