IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2013 1 Knowledge Representation and Management: Towards an Integration of a Semantic Web in Daily Health Practice Knowledge Representation and Management: Towards an Integration of a Semantic Web in Daily Health Practi

Summary Objective: To summarize the best papers in the field of Knowledge Representation and Management (KRM). Methods: A synopsis of the four selected articles for the IMIA Yearbook 2013 KRM section is provided, as well as highlights of current KRM trends, in particular, of the semantic web in daily health practice. The manual selection was performed in three stages: first a set of 3,106 articles, then a second set of 86 articles followed by a third set of 15 articles, and finally the last set of four chosen articles. Results: Among the four selected articles (se

Knowledge-Based Query Expansion over a Medical Terminology Oriented Ontology

Abstract. This paper deals with the problem of information retrieval on the Web and present the CISMeF project (acronym of Catalogue and Index of French-speaking Medical Sites). Information retrieval in the CISMeF catalogue is done with a terminology that is similar to ontology of medical domain and a set of metadata. This allows us to place the project at an overlap between the present Web, which is informal, and the forthcoming Semantic Web. We also describe an ongoing work, which consists of applying three knowledge-based methods in order to enhance information retrieval

Cataloguing and displaying Web feeds from French language health sites: a Web 2.0 add-on to a health gateway

Abstract. Among the numerous new functionalities of the Internet, commonly called Web 2.0, Web syndication illustrates the trend for better and faster information sharing. Web feeds (a.k.a RSS feeds), which were used mostly on weblogs at first, are now also widely used in academic, scientific and institutional websites such as PubMed. As very few French language feeds were listed or catalogued in the Health field by the year of 2007, it was decided to implement them in the quality-controlled health gateway CISMeF ([French] acronym for Catalogue and Index of French Language Health Resources on the Internet). Furthermore, making full use of the nature of Web syndication, a Web feed aggregator was put online in to provide a dynamic news gateway called "CISMeF actualités" (http://www.chu-rouen.fr/actualites/). This article describes the process to retrieve and implement the Web feeds in the catalogue and how its terminology was adjusted to describe this new content. It also describes how the aggregator was put online and the features of this news gateway. CISMeF actualités was built accordingly to the editorial policy of CISMeF. Only a part of the Web feeds of the catalogue were included to display the most authoritative sources. Web feeds were also grouped by medical specialties and by countries using the prior indexing of websites with MeSH terms and the so-called metaterms. CISMeF actualités now displays 131 Web feeds across 40 different medical specialities, coming from 5 different countries. It is one example, among many, that static hypertext links can now easily and beneficially be completed, or replaced, by dynamic display of Web content using syndication feeds