He has
been involved with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web site (http://www.
w3.org ), which offers a vast array of Semantic Web information in a variety of
subject areas, including the medical sciences and healthcare. Miller (2004) states
that the Semantic Web should provide common data representation to ???facilitate
integrating multiple sources to draw new conclusions;??? and to ???increase the utility
of information by connecting it to its definitions and context???. Kishore, Sharman,
and Ramesh (2004) wrote two articles which provide detailed information about
ontologies and information systems.
The concept of the Semantic Web is to extend the current World Wide Web such
that context and meaning is given to information (Gruetter & Eikemeier, 2004).
Instead of information being produced for machines, information will be produced
for human consumption (Berners-Lee et al., 2001). There are two main aspects
of Semantic Web development: (1) ontologies for consistent terminology and (2)
standards for interoperability.
Ontologies
Ontologies have been defined in many ways through the areas of philosophy, sociology,
and computer science.
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