Ontology mapping: the state of the art
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Bioinformatics
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Auditing of Terminologies
Journal of Biomedical Informatics
What Four Million Mappings Can Tell You about Two Hundred Ontologies
ISWC '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference
OMEN: a probabilistic ontology mapping tool
ISWC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on The Semantic Web
Proposed SKOS extensions for bioportal terminology services
JIST'11 Proceedings of the 2011 joint international conference on The Semantic Web
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Terminologies and ontologies are increasingly prevalent in healthcare and biomedicine. However they suffer from inconsistent renderings, distribution formats, and syntax that make applications through common terminologies services challenging. To address the problem, one could posit a shared representation syntax, associated schema, and tags. We identified a set of commonly-used elements in biomedical ontologies and terminologies based on our experience with the Common Terminology Services 2 (CTS2) Specification as well as the Lexical Grid (LexGrid) project. We propose guidelines for precisely such a shared terminology model, and recommend tags assembled from SKOS, OWL, Dublin Core, RDF Schema, and DCMI meta-terms. We divide these guidelines into lexical information (e.g. synonyms, and definitions) and semantic information (e.g. hierarchies). The latter we distinguish for use by informal terminologies vs. formal ontologies. We then evaluate the guidelines with a spectrum of widely used terminologies and ontologies to examine how the lexical guidelines are implemented, and whether our proposed guidelines would enhance interoperability.