Editorial
Semantic Web for data harmonization in Chinese medicine
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* Corresponding author: Kei-Hoi Cheung kei.cheung@yale.edu
1 Yale Center for Medical Informatics and Departments of Anesthesiology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Computer Science Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
2 College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, PR China
Chinese Medicine 2010, 5:2 doi:10.1186/1749-8546-5-2
Published: 12 January 2010Abstract
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.