Distributed Databases & Semantic Web

Distributed Databases and Semantic Web

Capable of addressing today’s rapidly expanding volume, variety and velocity of healthcare data, BBN’s Asio™ Tool Suite is based on W3C Semantic Web standards and provides the means to build enterprise systems that harness and unify diverse, interoperable data resources.

Using agile semantic methods that quickly adapt to evolving data content, concepts and technologies, the Asio approach provides an integrated, overarching view of diverse, distributed data resources without disturbing “business as usual” operations of existing systems.

By enabling the integration of multiple data sources within a healthcare organization through Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), Asio allows users (and systems) to reach a shared understanding about the meaning, structure and context of data, ensuring that decision-makers have the best information available.

BBN’s expert technology and deployment experience can deliver a wide range of capabilities and services in the healthcare domain:

  • Knowledge engineering and ontology development

  • Database engineering and optimization

  • Semantic data tagging for information discovery and sharing across heterogeneous information systems and networks

  • Query development and optimization

  • Data analysis and representation

  • System integration

  • Technical consulting on semantic technologies, Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA), and distributed data operations

BBN has been an industry leader in the research and development of Semantic Web technologies and applications since these technologies emerged more than 10 years ago. BBN played key roles in the groundbreaking DARPA Agent Markup Language (DAML) program, the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language, the Semantic Web Rule Language and the OWL-S markup language for Web Services.

BBN continues to be at the forefront of the development and applications of these technologies for both government and commercial clients.