Proposed SKOS extensions for bioportal terminology services

Cui Tao, Natalya F. Noy, Harold R. Solbrig, Nigam H. Shah, Mark A. Musen, Christopher G. Chute

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Abstract

The National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) BioPortal provides common access for browsing and querying a large set of ontologies that are commonly used in biomedical communities. One of our missions is to align lexical features (i.e., textual definitions) that are commonly used in these ontologies across different representation formats with standard tags and to represent them in a standard way to the users. The Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a recommendation of the World-Wide-Web Consortium (W3C) for a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems on the Semantic Web. The BioPortal is in the process of adopting SKOS in the backend representation for its content. During this process, we discovered that there exists a set of commonly-used lexical features shared by the biomedical ontologies that SKOS does not yet represent. In this paper, we discuss our proposed SKOS extensions to cover this set of commonly used lexical features, the rationales, and the detailed description of each proposed construct.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web - Joint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2011, Proceedings
Pages342-349
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
EventJoint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2011 - Hangzhou, China
Duration: Dec 4 2011Dec 7 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7185 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherJoint International Semantic Technology Conference, JIST 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHangzhou
Period12/4/1112/7/11

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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