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Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge
6 December 2017 - SWAT4LS Conference 2017
Gossa Lô, Victor de Boer, Stefan Schlobach
African Traditional Medicine (ATM)• Scientifically (often) unvalidated knowledge• First-line of treatment
• Lack of formalization• Safety• Loss of knowledge
http://healthstaff.co.za/31-august-african-traditional-medicine-day/
Constraints to knowledge sharing:
• Low levels of literacy
• Many different languages spoken
• Poor infrastructures: (no electricity in the villages, no internet, only radio/2G mobile)
Slide from Anna Bon and Victor de Boer
Keur Massar, Senegal
• Hôpital Traditionnel• Herbal medicine• Tradi-practitioners• Botanical garden
(1,000 products & recipes)
http://seyilaabe-htkm.blogspot.nl/
Madagascar• Dataset 1: Medicinal plants used by communities in Mahaboboka,
Amboronabo, Mikoboka, Southwestern Madagascar (34 villages)• Dataset 2: Frequent diseases in Ambalabe rural community, Eastern
Madagascar.
- Rich natural heritage- Poverty -> loss of biodiversity
Tabular data
Triples
Knowledge graphs on the Web
’set2 99’: [u’Emilia humifusa DC. Rakotoarivelo’, u’Asteraceae’, u’Infected wound’, u’L’, u’Angea’, u’Cataplasm on wound’, u’400’, 0.02, u’ID’, 25L]Dictionary
Human Disease Ontology (DOID)
Symptom Ontology (SYMP)
SNOMEDCT DBpedia
Results
• 13,028 triples• 672 plant types• 1,799 health conditions
https://github.com/biktorrr/linkedatmdata
Try it yourself: http://semanticweb.cs.vu.nl/linkedatm/home