The CDC embraces the semantic web
June 20, 2007
Earlier today I learned about EpiSPIDER, a web service from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. What is EpiSPIDER? From the blog
… a new Web application that uses RDF and RSS for aggregating global surveillance information on epidemics and world health problems. Information is dynamically collected from news feeds as well as the ProMED reports created by the International Society for Infectious Diseases. Text from these sources are mined, associated with UMLS disease concepts, and converted into RDF. The information is then associated by events and countries (using a Google-map interface) to alert health researchers around the world.
The service includes a Google Maps mashup, various graphs, a treemap, etc. Quite nice.
Technorati Tags: CDC, Semantic Web, RDF, EpiSPIDER
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