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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 14, 2007
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2007 8(3):141-149; doi:10.1093/bib/bbm013
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© The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Knowledge networks in the age of the Semantic Web

Eric Neumann and Larry Prusak

Corresponding author. Eric Neumann, 14 Colony Road, Lexington, MA 02420, USA. E-mail: eneumann{at}teranode.com

The Web has become the major medium for various communities to share their knowledge. To this end, it provides an optimal environment for knowledge networks. The web offers global connectivity that is virtually instantaneous, and whose resources and documents can easily be indexed for easy searching. In the coupled realms of biomedical research and healthcare, this has become especially important where today many thousands of communities already exist that connect across academia, hospitals and industry. These communities also rely on several forms of knowledge assets, including publications, experimental data, domain-specific vocabularies and policies. Web-based communities will be one of the earlier beneficiaries of the emerging Semantic Web. With the new standards and technologies of the Semantic Web, effective utilization of knowledge networks will expand profoundly, fostering new levels of innovation and knowledge.

Keywords: knowledge networks, Semantic Web, communities of practice, life sciences, social web, working knowledge

Submitted: February 13, 2007. Received (in revised form): April 13, 2007.


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