PhysiomeSpace: digital library service for biomedical data

Every research laboratory has a wealth of biomedical data locked up, which, if shared with other experts, could dramatically improve biomedical and healthcare research. With the PhysiomeSpace service, it is now possible with a few clicks to share with selected users biomedical data in an easy, contr...

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Published in:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences physical, and engineering sciences, 2010-06, Vol.368 (1921), p.2853-2861
Main Authors: Testi, Debora, Quadrani, Paolo, Viceconti, Marco
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomedical data
Biomedical research
Biomedical Research - methods
Communities
Data curation
Data Mining
Data Sharing
Datasets
Digital libraries
Digital Library
Domain ontologies
Humans
Information Dissemination
Information sharing
Internet
Libraries, Digital
Living Human Project
Metadata
Physiome
Privacy
User-Computer Interface
Virtual Physiological Human
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Summary:Every research laboratory has a wealth of biomedical data locked up, which, if shared with other experts, could dramatically improve biomedical and healthcare research. With the PhysiomeSpace service, it is now possible with a few clicks to share with selected users biomedical data in an easy, controlled and safe way. The digital library service is managed using a client-server approach. The client application is used to import, fuse and enrich the data information according to the PhysiomeSpace resource ontology and upload/download the data to the library. The server services are hosted on the Biomed Town community portal, where through a web interface, the user can complete the metadata curation and share and/or publish the data resources. A search service capitalizes on the domain ontology and on the enrichment of metadata for each resource, providing a powerful discovery environment. Once the users have found the data resources they are interested in, they can add them to their basket, following a metaphor popular in e-commerce web sites. When all the necessary resources have been selected, the user can download the basket contents into the client application. The digital library service is now in beta and open to the biomedical research community.
ISSN:1364-503X
1471-2962
DOI:10.1098/rsta.2010.0023