Development of the BMESource.org Portal
Information sharing through the Internet has allowed students to stay abreast
of the profound and fast-paced changes taking place in the biomedical
engineering (BME) community. The number of new developments posted on
the Web far exceeds the ability of individual investigators to evaluate technical
advances in a timely manner. Web based research portals provide a powerful
mechanism for the consolidation and evaluation of diverse BME advances. The
BMESource Web portal has been designed to meet this need, by consolidating
the domains of medicine, engineering and business and law into a single
Web site. While simple in conception, the diversity of BME topics poses a
significant challenge in the categorization of multi-disciplinary information. In
meeting this challenge, we have developed an ontology for BMESource that
classifies and organizes the diverse disciplines of the BME community into a
logical, hierarchical structure. In addition, universities from around the US are
collaborating to organize and populate BMESource.
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