Assessing Resolvability and Consistency in OBO Foundry Ontologies: Pilot Study

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplying the FAIR Principles to Accelerate Health Research in Europe in the Post COVID-19 Era - Proceedings of the 2021 EFMI Special Topic Conference
EditorsJaime Delgado, Arriel Benis, Paula de Toledo, Parisis Gallos, Mauro Giacomini, Alicia Martinez-Garcia, Dario Salvi
PublisherIOS Press BV
Pages104-108
Number of pages5
Volume287
ISBN (Electronic)9781643682365
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Nov 2021
Event2021 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference, STC 2021 - Virtual, Online, Spain
Duration: 22 Nov 202124 Nov 2021

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume287

Conference

Conference2021 European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Special Topic Conference, STC 2021
Country/TerritorySpain
CityVirtual, Online
Period22/11/202124/11/2021

Keywords

  • Assessment
  • Interoperability
  • OBO Foundry
  • Ontologies

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