Enabling West African Herbal-Based Traditional Medicine Digitizing: The WATRIMed Knowledge Graph : Stud Health Technol Inform

International audience The purpose of this study is to describe the design and development of the first release of the West African Herbal based Traditional Medicine Knowledge Graph (WATRIMed). It is a resource containing Traditional Medicine (TM) related entities and linked with publicly available knowledge bases in order to facilitate bringing West African TM into the digital world. The core model comprises currently 556 concepts including 143 identified West African medicinal plants and 108 recipes used by tradi-practitioners to treat 110 diseases and symptoms which are commonly encountered in this part of the world.