Architecture and Initial Development of a Digital Library Platform for Computable Knowledge Objects for Health.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

Throughout the world, biomedical knowledge is routinely generated and shared through primary and secondary scientific publications. However, there is too much latency between publication of knowledge and its routine use in practice. To address this latency, what is actionable in scientific publications can be encoded to make it computable. We have created a purpose-built digital library platform to hold, manage, and share actionable, computable knowledge for health called the Knowledge Grid Library. Here we present it with its system architecture.

Authors

  • Allen J Flynn
    Department of Learning Health Sciences of the Medical School.
  • Namita Bahulekar
    Department of Learning Health Sciences of the Medical School.
  • Peter Boisvert
    Department of Learning Health Sciences of the Medical School.
  • Carl Lagoze
    School of Information.
  • George Meng
    Department of Learning Health Sciences of the Medical School.
  • James Rampton
    Department of Learning Health Sciences of the Medical School.
  • Charles P Friedman
    Department of Learning Health Sciences of the Medical School.