title: SOMWeb - Towards an Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing in Oral Medicine.
abstract: In a net-based society, clinicians can come together for cooperative work and distance learning around a common medical material. This requires suitable techniques for cooperative knowledge management and user interfaces that are adapted to both the group as a whole and to individuals. To support distributed management and sharing of clinical knowledge, we propose the development of an intelligent web community for clinicians within oral medicine. This virtual meeting place will support the ongoing work on developing a digital knowledge base, providing a foundation for a more evidence-based oral medicine. The presented system is founded on the use and development of web services and standards for knowledge modelling and knowledge-based systems. The work is conducted within the frame of a well-established cooperation between oral medicine and computer science.
authors.affiliation: School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden. goran.falkman@his.se
authors.forename: Göran
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Falkman
authors.forename: Olof
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Torgersson
authors.forename: Mats
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jontell
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gustafsson
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D019242:Oral Medicine