Context and Objective: Over the past few decades, terminologies developed for clinical descriptions have been increasingly used as key resources for knowledge management, data integration, and decision support to the ...Context and Objective: Over the past few decades, terminologies developed for clinical descriptions have been increasingly used as key resources for knowledge management, data integration, and decision support to the extent that today they have become essential in the biomedical and health field. Among these clinical terminologies, some may possess the characteristics of one or several types of representation. This is the case for the Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), which is both a clinical medical terminology and a formal ontology based on the principles of semantic web. Methods: We present and discuss, on one hand, the compliance of SNOMED CT with the requirements of a reference clinical terminology and, on the other hand, the specifications of the features and constructions of descriptive of SNOMED CT. Results: We demonstrate the consistency of the reference clinical terminology SNOMED CT with the principles stated in James J. Cimino’s desiderata and we also show that SNOMED CT contains an ontology based on the EL profile of OWL2 with some simplifications. Conclusions: The duality of SNOMED CT shown is crucial for understanding the versatility, depth, and scope in the health field.展开更多
Temporal ontologies allow to represent not only concepts,their properties,and their relationships,but also time-varying information through explicit versioning of definitions or through the four-dimensional perduranti...Temporal ontologies allow to represent not only concepts,their properties,and their relationships,but also time-varying information through explicit versioning of definitions or through the four-dimensional perdurantist view.They are widely used to formally represent temporal data semantics in several applications belonging to different fields(e.g.,Semantic Web,expert systems,knowledge bases,big data,and artificial intelligence).They facilitate temporal knowledge representation and discovery,with the support of temporal data querying and reasoning.However,there is no standard or consensual temporal ontology query language.In a previous work,we have proposed an approach namedτJOWL(temporal OWL 2 from temporal JSON,where OWL 2 stands for"OWL 2 Web Ontology Language"and JSON stands for"JavaScript Object Notation").τJOWL allows(1)to automatically build a temporal OWL 2 ontology of data,following the Closed World Assumption(CWA),from temporal JSON-based big data,and(2)to manage its incremental maintenance accommodating their evolution,in a temporal and multi-schema-version environment.In this paper,we propose a temporal ontology query language forτJOWL,namedτSQWRL(temporal SQWRL),designed as a temporal extension of the ontology query language—Semantic Query-enhanced Web Rule Language(SQWRL).The new language has been inspired by the features of the consensual temporal query language TSQL2(Temporal SQL2),well known in the temporal(relational)database community.The aim of the proposal is to enable and simplify the task of retrieving any desired ontology version or of specifying any(complex)temporal query on time-varying ontologies generated from time-varying big data.Some examples,in the Internet of Healthcare Things(IoHT)domain,are provided to motivate and illustrate our proposal.展开更多
文摘Context and Objective: Over the past few decades, terminologies developed for clinical descriptions have been increasingly used as key resources for knowledge management, data integration, and decision support to the extent that today they have become essential in the biomedical and health field. Among these clinical terminologies, some may possess the characteristics of one or several types of representation. This is the case for the Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine—Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), which is both a clinical medical terminology and a formal ontology based on the principles of semantic web. Methods: We present and discuss, on one hand, the compliance of SNOMED CT with the requirements of a reference clinical terminology and, on the other hand, the specifications of the features and constructions of descriptive of SNOMED CT. Results: We demonstrate the consistency of the reference clinical terminology SNOMED CT with the principles stated in James J. Cimino’s desiderata and we also show that SNOMED CT contains an ontology based on the EL profile of OWL2 with some simplifications. Conclusions: The duality of SNOMED CT shown is crucial for understanding the versatility, depth, and scope in the health field.
文摘Temporal ontologies allow to represent not only concepts,their properties,and their relationships,but also time-varying information through explicit versioning of definitions or through the four-dimensional perdurantist view.They are widely used to formally represent temporal data semantics in several applications belonging to different fields(e.g.,Semantic Web,expert systems,knowledge bases,big data,and artificial intelligence).They facilitate temporal knowledge representation and discovery,with the support of temporal data querying and reasoning.However,there is no standard or consensual temporal ontology query language.In a previous work,we have proposed an approach namedτJOWL(temporal OWL 2 from temporal JSON,where OWL 2 stands for"OWL 2 Web Ontology Language"and JSON stands for"JavaScript Object Notation").τJOWL allows(1)to automatically build a temporal OWL 2 ontology of data,following the Closed World Assumption(CWA),from temporal JSON-based big data,and(2)to manage its incremental maintenance accommodating their evolution,in a temporal and multi-schema-version environment.In this paper,we propose a temporal ontology query language forτJOWL,namedτSQWRL(temporal SQWRL),designed as a temporal extension of the ontology query language—Semantic Query-enhanced Web Rule Language(SQWRL).The new language has been inspired by the features of the consensual temporal query language TSQL2(Temporal SQL2),well known in the temporal(relational)database community.The aim of the proposal is to enable and simplify the task of retrieving any desired ontology version or of specifying any(complex)temporal query on time-varying ontologies generated from time-varying big data.Some examples,in the Internet of Healthcare Things(IoHT)domain,are provided to motivate and illustrate our proposal.