Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2021 Nov 18;287:104-108. doi: 10.3233/SHTI210825.
Ontologies listed in the OBO Foundry are often regarded as reliable choices to be reused but ontology interoperability of them remains unknown. This study evaluated the resolvability of URIs and consistency of axioms in the OBO Foundry library, BFO ontology, and CIDO ontology. All had nonresolvable URIs, but the OBO library and the CIDO had additional interoperability issues regarding the use of incorrect prefixes, mixing up with ontologies, and inconsistency in the use of property. These detected issues reflected the real-world common problems that were not significant from human beings' point of view but hindered the machine-processability of ontologies. The assessment performed in this study was automated and enables scale-up against more metrics over more ontologies, which remains future work.
OBO 发现中的本体通常被认为是可重复使用的可靠选择，但它们的本体互操作性仍然未知。本研究评估了 OBO 库、BFO 本体和 CIDO 本体中 URI 的可解析性和公理的一致性。所有本体都存在不可解析的 URI，但 OBO 库和 CIDO 本体在使用不正确的前缀、与其他本体混淆以及在使用属性方面存在不一致性，这些问题反映了现实世界中的常见问题，从人类的角度来看这些问题并不重要，但却阻碍了本体的机器处理能力。本研究中进行的评估是自动化的，可以针对更多的本体和更多的指标进行扩展，这是未来的工作。
