dos Reis Julio Cesar, Pruski Cédric, Da Silveira Marcos, Reynaud-Delaître Chantal
Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies (CR SANTEC), Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 6 avenue des Hauts-fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; Laboratory for Computer Science (LRI), University of Paris-Sud XI, Bât 650, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies (CR SANTEC), Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, 6 avenue des Hauts-fourneaux, L-4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
J Biomed Inform. 2014 Feb;47:71-82. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2013.09.006. Epub 2013 Sep 25.
Knowledge Organization Systems (KOSs) are extensively used in the biomedical domain to support information sharing between software applications. KOSs are proposed covering different, but overlapping subjects, and mappings indicate the semantic relation between concepts from two KOSs. Over time, KOSs change as do the mappings between them. This can result from a new discovery or a revision of existing knowledge which includes corrections of concepts or mappings. Indeed, changes affecting KOS entities may force the underline mappings to be updated in order to ensure their reliability over time. To tackle this open research problem, we study how mappings are affected by KOS evolution. This article presents a detailed descriptive analysis of the impact that changes in KOS have on mappings. As a case study, we use the official mappings established between SNOMED CT and ICD-9-CM from 2009 to 2011. Results highlight factors according to which KOS changes in varying degrees influence the evolution of mappings.
知识组织系统（KOSs）在生物医学领域被广泛用于支持软件应用程序之间的信息共享。KOSs 被提议涵盖不同但相互重叠的主题，并且映射表示来自两个 KOSs 的概念之间的语义关系。随着时间的推移，KOSs 会发生变化，它们之间的映射也会如此。这可能是由于新的发现或对现有知识的修订，其中包括对概念或映射的修正。实际上，影响 KOS 实体的变化可能会迫使相关映射进行更新，以确保其随时间推移的可靠性。为了解决这个开放性研究问题，我们研究映射如何受到 KOS 演变的影响。本文详细描述了 KOS 的变化对映射的影响。作为一个案例研究，我们使用了 2009 年至 2011 年在 SNOMED CT 和 ICD - 9 - CM 之间建立的官方映射。结果突出了 KOS 在不同程度上的变化影响映射演变的因素。
