scholarly journals Interoperability of disparate engineering domain ontologies using basic formal ontology

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (10-12) ◽  
pp. 625-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Hagedorn ◽  
Barry Smith ◽  
Sundar Krishnamurty ◽  
Ian Grosse
2009 ◽  
Vol 48 (02) ◽  
pp. 184-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Boeker ◽  
H. Stenzhorn ◽  
J. Niggemann ◽  
S. Schulz

Summary Objectives: The application of upper ontologies has been repeatedly advocated for to support the interoperability between different domain ontologies for facilitating the shared use of data within and across disciplines. BioTop is an upper domain ontology that aims at aligning more specialized biomolecular and biomedical ontologies. The integration of BioTop and the upper ontology Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is the objective of this study. Methods: BFO was manually integrated into BioTop, observing both its free text and formal definitions. BioTop classes were attached to BFO classes as children and BFO classes were reused in the formal definitions of BioTop classes. A description logics reasoner was used to check the logical consistency of this integration. The domain adequacy was checked manually by domain experts. Results: Logical inconsistencies were found by the reasoner when applying the BFO classes for fiat and aggregated objects in some of the BioTop class definitions. We discovered that the definition of those particular classes in BFO was dependent on the notion of physical connectedness. Hence we suggest ignoring a BFO subbranch in order not to hinder cross-granularity integration. Conclusion: Without introducing a more sophisticated theory of granularity, the described problems cannot be properly dealt with. Whereas we argue that an upper ontology should be granularity-independent, we illustrate how granularity-dependent domain ontologies can still be embedded into the framework of BioTop in combination with BFO.


10.2196/17176 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. e17176
Author(s):  
Felipe Carvalho Pellison ◽  
Rui Pedro Charters Lopes Rijo ◽  
Vinicius Costa Lima ◽  
Nathalia Yukie Crepaldi ◽  
Filipe Andrade Bernardi ◽  
...  

Background Interoperability of health information systems is a challenge due to the heterogeneity of existing systems at both the technological and semantic levels of their data. The lack of existing data about interoperability disrupts intra-unit and inter-unit medical operations as well as creates challenges in conducting studies on existing data. The goal is to exchange data while providing the same meaning for data from different sources. Objective To find ways to solve this challenge, this research paper proposes an interoperability solution for the tuberculosis treatment and follow-up scenario in Brazil using Semantic Web technology supported by an ontology. Methods The entities of the ontology were allocated under the definitions of Basic Formal Ontology. Brazilian tuberculosis applications were tagged with entities from the resulting ontology. Results An interoperability layer was developed to retrieve data with the same meaning and in a structured way enabling semantic and functional interoperability. Conclusions Health professionals could use the data gathered from several data sources to enhance the effectiveness of their actions and decisions, as shown in a practical use case to integrate tuberculosis data in the State of São Paulo.


Káñina ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 59
Author(s):  
Hazel Barahona Gamboa

En este trabajo se representa la organización del léxico de la gastronomía del Valle Central por medio de un formalismo ontológico. Esto se logró, primero, por medio de la recopilación del léxico de la gastronomía tra- dicional, entendida como aquella que se transmite de generación en generación y que se encuentra asociada a una región específica que cuenta con elementos de interculturalidad. Segundo, a través de ese léxico, se establecieron las categorías lexicales en las que se encuentra estructurado. Esas relaciones son, básicamente, de dos tipos: meronímicas e hiponímicas. Entonces, para explicar su forma- lización ontológica, se tomaron esas relaciones, las cuales permiten incluir clases menores dentro de otras, a través del proceso top-down. Finalmente, estas relaciones meronímicas e hiponímicas se formalizaron por medio de una ontología regida bajo los postulados de Basic Formal Ontology (Smith, 2014). En la que, se establece que toda ontología cuenta con una relación del tipo is_a (es_un). Todo esto, con la finalidad de volver más accesible la información especializada de un campo. La ontología gastronómica del Valle Central cuenta con seis categorías para las relaciones hiponímicas entre merónimos (ingredientes) y 11 categorías para las relaciones hiponímicas entre las comidas. 


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