Supporting Collaboration of Medical Informatics Researchers and Teams

Medical informatics is a highly interdisciplinary field of research, where a great deal of collaboration is needed to achieve efficient solutions. We are witnessing a remarkable proliferation of biomedical knowledge on one side and the revolution of communication technologies on the other. In this manner we may expect that a proper methodology to support collaboration strategies of medical informatics researchers and research teams based on knowledge, should improve the collaboration and the creativity in the field of medical informatics research. Based on the required functionalities of such a system, we propose the semantic web as the underlying technology and explain its use for knowledge sharing both within an organization and inter-organizationally.