Analysis and implementation of the DynDiff tool when comparing versions of ontology.

Journal: Journal of biomedical semantics
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ontologies play a key role in the management of medical knowledge because they have the properties to support a wide range of knowledge-intensive tasks. The dynamic nature of knowledge requires frequent changes to the ontologies to keep them up-to-date. The challenge is to understand and manage these changes and their impact on depending systems well in order to handle the growing volume of data annotated with ontologies and the limited documentation describing the changes.

Authors

  • Sara Diaz Benavides
    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, L-4362, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
  • Silvio D Cardoso
    Dynaccurate, 9, avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, L-4362, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
  • Marcos Da Silveira
    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • Cédric Pruski
    Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 29 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.