Querying clinical data in HL7 RIM based relational model with morph-RDB.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Semantic interoperability is essential when carrying out post-genomic clinical trials where several institutions collaborate, since researchers and developers need to have an integrated view and access to heterogeneous data sources. One possible approach to accommodate this need is to use RDB2RDF systems that provide RDF datasets as the unified view. These RDF datasets may be materialized and stored in a triple store, or transformed into RDF in real time, as virtual RDF data sources. Our previous efforts involved materialized RDF datasets, hence losing data freshness.

Authors

  • Freddy Priyatna
    Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. fpriyatna@fi.upm.es.
  • Raul Alonso-Calvo
    Biomedical Informatics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • Sergio Paraiso-Medina
    Biomedical Informatics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • Oscar Corcho
    Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.