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the conventional Web, and the emerging query languages for the Semantic Web.
They offer a reconsideration of design principles for Web and Semantic Web query
languages. They present features of “versatile query languages that can cope up
markups and representations used for traditional Web and Semantic Web. One key
aspect they argue for is the support for incomplete data specifications (“incomplete
queries”) and incomplete data selections (“incomplete answers”).
Section.IV:.Applications
This section of the book deal with applications of Semantic Web. Among the areas
where we see more significant activities include health care, life sciences, and government.
Consequently, majority of the chapters deal with health care.
Chapter IX and the first chapter in the application part of this book is by Singh, Iyer,
and Salam, on “Semantic E-Business” which is defined as “an approach to managing
knowledge for coordination of e-business processes through the systematic application
of Semantic Web technologies.” This chapter discusses the application of
Semantic Web technologies to improve the current state of the art in the transparency
of e-business processes. Applications discussed include supply chain management,
e-marketplace, healthcare and e-government.
Chapter X titled “A Distributed Patient Identification Protocol Based on Control
Numbers with Semantic Annotation” by Eichelberg, Aden, and Thoben describes a
protocol that allows one to locate patient records for a given patient in a distributed
environment without the need to keep a master patient index. The protocol combines
cryptographic techniques with semantic annotation and mediation, and presents a
simple, Web-Service-based access to clinical documents.
Chapter X by Shabo and Hughes addresses the “Family History Information Exchange
Services Using HL7 Clinical Genomics Standard Specifications.” The future
vision of the article is the use of these services based on health standards over the
Web such that various family history specialized applications will be able to use
them to seamlessly exchange family history data.
Chapter XII, the final chapter titled “Archetype-Based Semantic Interoperability
of Web Service Messages in the Health Care Domain” by Bicer, Kilic, Dogac, and
Laleci, addresses how to semantically annotate Web service messages through
archetypes in order to provide Web service-based semantic interoperability in the
health care domain. For this purpose, the Web service messages are annotated with
OWL representation of the archetypes, and by providing the ontology mapping
between the archetypes through an OWL ontology mapping tool called OWLmt,
the interoperability of the Web service message instances are achieved.
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