Semantic Web for data harmonization in Chinese medicine

doi:10.1186/1749-8546-5-2

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Semantic Web for data harmonization in Chinese medicine

Kei-Hoi Cheung¹ and Huajun Chen²

¹Yale Center for Medical Informatics and Departments of Anesthesiology and Genetics, School of Medicine, Computer Science Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

²College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310027, PR China

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Chinese Medicine 2010, 5:2doi:10.1186/1749-8546-5-2


Published:	12 January 2010

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.