title: Semantic Web for data harmonization in Chinese medicine.
abstract: Scientific studies to investigate Chinese medicine with Western medicine have been generating a large amount of data to be shared preferably under a global data standard. This article provides an overview of Semantic Web and identifies some representative Semantic Web applications in Chinese medicine. Semantic Web is proposed as a standard for representing Chinese medicine data and facilitating their integration with Western medicine data.
authors.forename: Kei-Hoi
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Cheung
authors.forename: Huajun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chen