Biomedical Engineering Reference
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Wiki-based contextual menus. Information about data
sources inside the query application is augmented
with details managed inside KnowIt
Figure 16.8
From the Third Dimension Explorer interface, researchers can explore
the visually rendered map of data sources, issue queries to each data
source's SPARQL endpoint, and aggregate query results. Figure 16.8 shows
an example of a contextual menu with information about the origin,
contact information, licensing details and content extracted from KnowIt.
Adding a new data source to the query tool becomes as simple as adding a
new page in the wiki. The query application also provides access to query
wizards to other internal biological, chemical and clinical data warehouses.
This permits users to refi ne queries in a single data source as well as retrieve
known information for a single entity across multiple domains.
This application illustrates the full benefi ts of building a semantic
Enterprise Encyclopaedia. Thanks to Semantic MediaWiki, the
encyclopaedia serves as a backbone for openly exposing meta-data about
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