Towards pragmatic patterns for clinical knowledge management

摘要

We're delighted to welcome you to the 2nd International Conference on the Pragmatic Web. Following last year's inaugural meeting, it is exciting to see continued interest in this fascinating concept. >At last year's conference, almost every speaker seemed to open with the words "I'm not sure what the Pragmatic Web is, but here's my take on it..." Clearly, the concept resonates in different ways with different people, and we will see an equally colourful spectrum of contributions over the next two days. >As an emergent community, clearly we are not running a mega-conference yet---but holding a small, inclusive and welcoming meeting that is not too hasty to reject unfamiliar ideas should be taken as a feature, not a bug! Balancing that, we were of course still concerned to maintain quality, so that engaging with the people and papers repays the effort. Out of the 20 full paper submissions received, the programme before you has 8 full papers, and 2 short papers, mostly reviewed bythree or four people, and subsequently revised.