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Knowledge graphs offer a powerful means to semantically link such data, enabling interoperability and reuse. The Swiss Personalized Health Network has developed a comprehensive semantic interoperability framework to implement the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles at a national level.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This paper presents the strategy adopted and resulting SPHN Connector tool for enabling data providers to transform their local data into semantically enriched knowledge graphs following the RDF and related Semantic Web standards. Rather than requiring centralized data transformation, the SPHN Connector allows each institution to build knowledge graphs locally from their heterogeneous data sources, maintaining data governance at the source while ensuring semantic interoperability across sites.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The SPHN Connector tackles the technical challenges in federated knowledge graph construction. 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