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Implementing a Data Infrastructure for a Pharmaceutical Community

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Juha Puustjärvi,

Leena PuustjärviAuthors Info & Claims

IIWAS '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 390 - 395

https://doi.org/10.1145/2539150.2539198

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

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Pharmaceutical community has members of various organizations such as from pharmacies, medicines agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and pharmacy oriented educational institutions. All these organizations publish medicinal information in their Web pages. These pages have different kinds of relationships but these relationships are not explicitly presented and therefore searching related pages is frustrating and time consuming. To alleviate this problem we have designed a specific data infrastructure and a vocabulary (OWL-ontology) for linking related pages. Further within each community member these web pages are annotated by linking them into domain specific ontologies. Thus, a community wide integrated ontology is weaved, which can be queried by SPARQL. In this paper, we illustrate how we have exploited the ideas of Linked Data in integrating the domain ontologies of the members of the pharmaceutical community, and how single SPARQL queries can be used in querying the data located in various data sources. In addition the architecture of the developed data infrastructure is presented.

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Puustjarvi JPuustjarvi L(2015)Selective dissemination of clinical guidelines in healthcare communities2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)10.1109/IEEM.2015.7385739(706-710)Online publication date: Dec-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2015.7385739

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Implementing a Data Infrastructure for a Pharmaceutical Community
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Architectures
    1. Distributed architectures
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles

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Puustjarvi JPuustjarvi L(2015)Selective dissemination of clinical guidelines in healthcare communities2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM)10.1109/IEEM.2015.7385739(706-710)Online publication date: Dec-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2015.7385739

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