Development of grid-like applications for public health using Web 2.0 mashup techniques.
Development of public health informatics applications often requires the integration of multiple data sources. This process can be challenging due to issues such as different file formats, schemas, naming systems, and having to scrape the content of web pages. A potential solution to these system de...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Vol. 15; no. 6; pp. 783 - 787 |
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| Formato: | research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Nov/Dec2008
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