Technical Environment for Developing the SNIK Ontology of Information Management in Hospitals.

Journal: Studies in health technology and informatics
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Abstract

The SNIK project converts textbooks about information management in hospitals to a domain ontology that provides a shared vocabulary for institutions to model and integrate processes, data and infrastructure. To accommodate user groups with different requirements and technical backgrounds, and to support incremental and cooperative development, we create a system architecture to publish, visualize, browse and query the ontology, as well as to evaluate and improve the data quality.

Authors

  • Konrad Höffner
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Franziska Jahn
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Christian Kücherer
    Software Engineering Group, Heidelberg University, Institute for Computer Science, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Barbara Paech
    Software Engineering Group, Heidelberg University, Institute for Computer Science, Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Birgit Schneider
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Martin Schöbel
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Sebastian Stäubert
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.
  • Alfred Winter
    IMISE, University of Leipzig, Härtelstraße 16-18, 04107 Leipzig, Germany.