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GI Systems for Public Health with an Ontology Based Approach
Ponència presentada en AGILE’2012 International Conference on Geographic Information Science, "Multidisciplinary Research on Geographical Information in Europe and Beyond" celebrat a Avignon, els dies 24-27 d'abril de 2012Public health research brings substantial benefit to
society. Finding data in an efficient way is necessary to carry out relevant space
time analysis to address particular studies such as mortality rates and their causes for instance due to environmental exposu
re. However,
health
-related information systems remain isolated from other systems such as those managing geospatial and environmental
information making it
difficult and time
-consuming to study relations and patterns in multidisciplinary scenarios. In this paper we
employ Linked Open Data technologies
to publish health and related data. We report results of the approach with a case study to expose
mortality atlas data of the Valencia Community in Spain. The results show how to overcome the lack of semantic relations betw
een
resources and published data
, and how to reduce disparity and redundancy