Figure 5.

Geo-ontology-aided semantic search of Web resources (Kamel Boulos, 2002). Metadata alone are not enough for successful retrieval of the Web resource/page shown in this figure. In this example, even though the resource and its metadata do not mention 'exposure risk to Borrelia Burgdorferi in north-eastern United States', a multiple ontology (geo-ontology and disease ontology)-assisted search for 'exposure risk to Borrelia Burgdorferi in north-eastern United States' would be able to find the resource [34].

Boulos et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:38   doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-38
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