• Subject: Re: SemWeb again
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 07:53:34 -0700
• Cc: xml-dev <xml-dev@l...>
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Mike Champion wrote:


> How close is anyone to actually building a system that contains enough of SNOMED and
> the various other bits of knowledge so as to be truly useful to a clinician?


<disclaimer details='plugging my biz a bit here'>For one example of what 
you can do with a high-quality taxonomy populated with high-value data, 
visit http://map.net and check out the "medical data" demo.</disclaimer>

A quick trip through that demo will give you a feel for the scale of the 
problems that any meaningful Semantic Web activity will have to deal 
with.  The difficulty is high - so are the potential rewards. -Tim

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