Search, NAY Medical Informatics: The Semantic-Web “Killer-App”

April 4, 2008

Why do we need a “semantic-web” ? (Web) search appears as one compelling application so far …. however the user honestly seen anything useful and scalable yet …. Powerset - hurry up !!

However it seems to medical and clinical informatics is one community that has really adopting (and wisely so) semantic-web technologies to address their knowledge sharing, search, retrieval etc needs in a specialized domain. This may well be the “killer-app” for semantics technologies.