Building biomedical web communities using a semantically aware content management system

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-138

  Das, Sudeshna ^a   Girard, Lisa ^b,c   Green, Tom ^d   Weitzman, Louis ^a,e   Lewis Bowen, Alister ^a,e,f   Clark, Tim ^g  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c StemBook ^*

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e VMWARE INC   (United States)

^f Cloud Computing Group

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Content management system; Ontology; Scientific communities; Semantic Web

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; COOPERATION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORK;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 63349093996     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbn052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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