%0 Journal Article
%@ 1438-8871
%I Gunther Eysenbach
%V 3
%N 4
%P e34
%T An Ontology of Quality Initiatives and a Model for Decentralized, Collaborative Quality Management on the (Semantic) World Wide Web
%A Eysenbach,Gunther
%+ University of Heidelberg, Research Unit for Cybermedicine & E-health, Department of Clinical Social Medicine, Bergheimerstr. 58, D-69115 Heidelberg, Germany, ey@yi.com
%K Semantic Web
%K Resource Description Framework
%K World Health Organization
%K Internet/standards
%K Ethics, Professional
%K Social Control, Formal
%K Health Care Quality
%K Quality Assurance
%K Health Care/standards
%K Commerce/standards
%K Information Management/standards
%K Medical Informatics/standards
%K Quality control
%D 2001
%7 31.12.2001
%9 Editorial
%J J Med Internet Res
%G English
%X This editorial provides a model of how quality initiatives concerned with health information on the World Wide Web may in the future interact with each other. This vision fits into the evolving "Semantic Web" architecture - ie, the prospective that the World Wide Web may evolve from a mess of unstructured, human-readable information sources into a global knowledge base with an additional layer providing richer and more meaningful relationships between resources. One first prerequisite for forming such a "Semantic Web" or "web of trust" among the players active in quality management of health information is that these initiatives make statements about themselves and about each other in a machine-processable language. I present a concrete model on how this collaboration could look, and provide some recommendations on what the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other policy makers in this framework could be.
%M 11772549
%R 10.2196/jmir.3.4.e34
%U http://www.jmir.org/2001/4/e34/
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.3.4.e34
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11772549