Web 3.0 and medicine

doi:10.1136/bmj.39428.494236.BE

BMJ 2007;335:1273-1274 (22 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.39428.494236.BE

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Web 3.0 and medicine

Make way for the semantic web

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This time last Christmas, medical blogs and RSS feeds were thehot technology topics, and we were debating the merits of newermodels of scholarly publishing in web 2.0, such as open accessand medical wikis.¹ Can web 3.0 be here already?

Recently, a neurologist devised an apt medical metaphor forweb 3.0. He suggested that, "The development of the graphicalweb from its early days in 1995 to the social web of late 2007is comparable to the developing brain." He went on to say that,"Whereas web 1.0 and 2.0 were embryonic, formative technologies,web 3.0 promises to be a more mature web where better ‘pathways’for information retrieval will be created, and a greater capacityfor cognitive processing of information will be built." (Personalcommunication, A Wong, 2007.)

So what is web 3.0, and why is it called the semanticweb (table)?Although both terms are used . . . [Full text of this article]

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Dean Giustini, UBC biomedical branch librarian

¹ University of British Columbia Biomedical Branch Library, Diamond Healthcare Centre and Vancouver Hospital, BC, Canada V5Z 1M9

dean.giustini@ubc.ca

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