Ontology development for the masses: creating ICD-11 in WebProtégé

  • Authors:

  • Tania Tudorache;Sean Falconer;Natalya F. Noy;Csongor Nyulas;Tevfik Bedirhan Üstün;Margaret-Anne Storey;Mark A. Musen

  • Affiliations:

  • Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University;Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University;Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University;Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University;World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland;University of Victoria, Canada;Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • EKAW'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Knowledge engineering and management by the masses
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The World Health Organization is currently developing the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). ICD is the standard diagnostic classification used in health care all over the world. In contrast to previous ICD revisions that did not have a formal representation and were mainly available as printed books, ICD-11 uses OWL for the formal representation of its content. In this paper, we report on our work to support the collaborative development of ICD-11 in WebProtégé--a web-based ontology browser and editor. WebProtégé integrates collaboration features directly into the editing process. We report on the results of the evaluation that we performed during a two-week meeting with the ICD editors in Geneva. We performed the evaluation in the context of the editors learning to use WebProtégé to start the ICD-11 development. Participants in the evaluation were optimistic that collaborative development will work in this context, but have raised a number of critical issues.