Implementing a Data Infrastructure for a Pharmaceutical Community

  • Authors:

  • Juha Puustjärvi;Leena Puustjärvi

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68 FI-00014, Finland +358 50 3862799;The Pharmacy of Kaivopuisto, Neitsytpolku 10 Helsinki 14, Finland +358 50 3737528

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

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.