BUSCLIMED: Mobile app for searching medical literature

Abstract

The World Wide Web is evolving into a Web of Linked Data. A wide amount of linked data has been published in freely accessible datasets, due to the Semantic Web spread, and to the recent Linked Open Data initiative promoted by the father of the web, Sir Tim Berners Lee. There are many health and biomedicine datasets, connected with other datasets that allow people to search and retrieve medical information in an agile way, different to the traditional information retrieval methods. We have developed a mobile app for exploiting linked medical resources by physicians, students, nurses and other healthcare professionals. With our mobile application, over 20 million abstracts and medical references can be consulted.