Design and Development of a Linked Open Data-Based Health Information Representation and Visualization System: Potentials and Preliminary Evaluation

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tilahun, Binyam ^a   Kauppinen, Tomi ^b   Keßler, Carsten ^c   Fritz, Fleur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information systems; HIV; Linked open data; Ontology; Public health; Public health informatics; Semantic web; Visualization; Who

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925268030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.3531     Document Type: Article

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