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An Ontologically Founded Basic Architecture for Information Systems in Clinical and Epidemiological Research. Alexandr Uciteli , Silvia Groß, Sergej Kireyev, Heinrich Herre. Introduction. Various clinical and epidemiological study projects Large amounts of data to be collected in similar form
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An Ontologically Founded Basic Architecture for Information Systems in Clinical and Epidemiological Research Alexandr Uciteli, Silvia Groß, Sergej Kireyev, Heinrich Herre
Introduction • Various clinical and epidemiological study projects • Large amounts of data to be collected in similar form • Significant expense for the specification of data collection • => The qualitatively high grade and proven data definitions (study items) are necessary
ISO/IEC 11179: Purposes • Standard description of data • Common understanding of data across organizational elements and between organizations • Re-use and standardization of data over time, space, and applications • Harmonization and standardization of data within an organization and across organizations • Management of the components of data • Re-use of the components of data
Categories in General Formal Ontology (GFO) Distinctive features of GFO • Ontology for categories • Different kinds of categories • Categories of higher order • Transitive categories
Items and Phenotypes • The notion of phenotype is insufficiently established and founded • An ontological analysis of the notion of phenotype is needed • The relation between items and phenotypes must be investigated
Implementation • Creating and managing of all fundamental concepts of the ISO standard • Some extensions of the standard were implemented • Graphical representation of the concepts • Simple concepts can be connected by suitable relations to complex ones
Conclusion • The semantics of ISO standard is insufficiently developed. • => Methodology how to specify the semantics based on top-level ontology • => A bridge between the standard and the rigorous methods of formal ontology
Promising open problems • Ontological analysis of the notions of complex concept and phenotype • Reasoning capabilities