The Future of Research Communications and e-Scholarship

Biotea: RDFizing PubMed Central in support for the paper as an interface to the Web of Data

Authors:

Leyla Garcia
Casey McLaughlin
Alexander Garcia

Background

The World Wide Web has become a dissemination platform for scientific and non-scientific publications. However, most of the information remains locked up in discrete documents that are not always interconnected or machine-readable. The connectivity tissue provided by RDF technology has not yet been widely used to support the generation of self-describing, machine-readable documents.

Results

In this paper, we present our approach to the generation of self-describing machine-readable scholarly documents. We understand the scientific document as an entry point and interface to the Web of Data. We have semantically processed the full-text, open-access subset of PubMed Central. Our RDF model and resulting dataset make extensive use of existing ontologies and semantic enrichment services. We expose our model, services, prototype, and datasets athttp://biotea.idiginfo.org/ webcite

Conclusions

The semantic processing of biomedical literature presented in this paper embeds documents within the Web of Data and facilitates the execution of concept-based queries against the entire digital library. Our approach delivers a flexible and adaptable set of tools for metadata enrichment and semantic processing of biomedical documents. Our model delivers a semantically rich and highly interconnected dataset with self-describing content so that software can make effective use of it.

 

Journal: Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2013

Archive: https://archive.force11.net/node/6361

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