Anguita Alberto, Escrich Ana, Maojo Victor
Biomedical Informatics Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo, 28660 Madrid, Spain.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:970.
RDF has established in the last years as the language for describing, publishing and sharing biomedical resources. Following this trend, a great amount of RDF-based data sources, as well as ontologies, have appeared. Using a common language as RDF has provided a unified syntactic for sharing resources, but the semantics remain as the main cause of heterogeneity, hampering data integration and homogenization efforts. To overcome this issue, ontology alignment based solutions have been typically used. However, alignment information is usually codified using ad-hoc formats. In this paper, we present a general purpose ontology mapping format, totally independent from the homogenization approach to be applied. The format is accompanied with a Java API that offers mapping construction and parsing features, as well as some basic algorithms for applying it to data translation solutions.
近年来，资源描述框架（RDF）已成为用于描述、发布和共享生物医学资源的语言。顺应这一趋势，大量基于RDF的数据源以及本体已经出现。使用RDF这样的通用语言为资源共享提供了统一的句法，但语义仍是异质性的主要原因，阻碍了数据集成和同质化工作。为克服这一问题，通常采用基于本体对齐的解决方案。然而，对齐信息通常使用临时格式进行编码。在本文中，我们提出了一种通用的本体映射格式，它完全独立于要应用的同质化方法。该格式还附带了一个Java API，该API提供映射构建和解析功能，以及一些将其应用于数据转换解决方案的基本算法。
