Building a transnational biosurveillance network using semantic Web technologies: Requirements, design, and preliminary evaluation

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Teodoro, Douglas ^a,b   Pasche, Emilie ^a,b   Gobeill, Julien ^b,c   Emonet, Stéphane ^a,b   Ruch, Patrick ^c   Lovis, Christian ^a,b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial drug resistance; Heterogeneous databases; Online information services; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84864272496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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