Journal
APPLIED ONTOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 23-33Publisher
IOS PRESS
DOI: 10.3233/AO-2011-0087
Keywords
Ontology import; data integration; MIREOT
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Funding
- NIH [R01EB005034]
- Public Health Agency of Canada/Canadian Institutes of Health Research Influenza Research Network (PCIRN)
- EC [LSHG-CT-2006-037686]
- BBSRC [BB/C008200/1, BB/D524283/1, BB/E025080/1]
- EU [ICT-2007.5.2-217139]
- Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/C008200/1, BB/E025080/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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While the Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a mechanism to import ontologies, this mechanism is not always suitable. Current editing tools present challenges for working with large ontologies and direct OWL imports can prove impractical for day-to-day development. Furthermore, external ontologies often undergo continuous change which can introduce conflicts when integrated with multiple efforts. Finally, importing heterogeneous ontologies in their entirety may lead to inconsistencies or unintended inferences. In this paper we propose a set of guidelines for importing required terms from an external resource into a target ontology. We describe the methodology, its implementation, present some examples of this application, and outline future work and extensions.
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