An introduction to the Semantic Web for health sciences librarians

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-205

  Robu, Ioana ^a   Robu, Valentin ^b   Thirion, Benoit ^c  

^a IULIU HATIEGANU UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

^c ROUEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE; LIBRARIAN; LINGUISTICS; MARKUP LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM;

EID: 33646236782     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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