HealthFinland—A national semantic publishing network and portal for health information

Abstract

Providing citizens with reliable, up-to-date and individually relevant health information on the web is done by governmental, non-governmental, business and other organizations. Currently the information is published with little co-ordination and co-operation between the publishers. For publishers, this means duplicated work and costs due to publishing same information twice on many websites. Also maintaining links between websites requires work. From the citizens point of view, finding content is difficult due to e.g. differences in layman's vocabularies compared to medical terminology and difficulties in aggregating information from several sites. To solve these problems, we present a national scale semantic publishing system HealthFinland which consists of a 1) a centralized content infrastructure of health ontologies and services with tools, 2) a distributed semantic content creation channel based on several health organizations, and 3) an intelligent semantic portal aggregating and presenting the contents from intuitive and health promoting end-user perspectives for human users as well as for other websites and portals.

A study of semantic integration across archaeological data and reports in different languages

“…This employed the Europeana Data Model (EDM) as a semantic integration framework, complemented by the Amsterdam Museum thesaurus, which was mapped to the Dutch version of the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT-Ned 7 ) in the subject domain (in addition to geographical and person metadata). Other examples of the complementary use of ontologies or formal metadata and value vocabularies include the Europeana cultural heritage portal [26] and the Health Finland prototype [27] .…”

A Semantic Web Approach in the Implementation of a Linked Data Portal Using a CMS

“…There are various implementations regarding this kind of portals such as, semantic information portals, linked data portals, community web portals etc [1], [6], [8], [9].…”

“…HealthFinland [9] is a semantic web-based portal for managing health information. It utilizes semantic technologies in order to customize health information found on the Web according to the needs of a particular user.…”

“…JSON is a common format chosen by organizations in order to export their data. As far as the software standardization efforts are concerned CKAN is also experimenting with RDF encoding 8 utilizing DERI's Data Catalog Vocabulary (dcat) 9 . ȉhe data management system incorporated in MILD is the intermediate between the actual data to be displayed to the portal and the portal itself.…”

IRISPortal

“…It uses an ontology-driven approach to provide semantic browsing, linking, and contextual querying of content within the portal relevant to research information, web pages annotations, and provide links to semantically related areas enabling a rich contextual retrieval of information. HealthFinland [9] is a national semantic publishing system that consists of a 1) a centralized content infrastructure of health ontologies and services with tools, 2) a distributed semantic content creation channel based on several health organizations, and 3) an intelligent semantic portal aggregating and presenting the contents from intuitive and health promoting end-user perspectives for human users as well as for other websites and portals.…”