Ontology Outreach Advisory

Healthcare and Life Sciences is one of the first domains in which the need for ontologies to advance science on the one hand, and to make better applications on the other hand, has been understood. The OOA-HLS chapter aims to develop, recommend and promote quality guidelines for ontology content and tools. The current focus topics of the OOA-HLS chapter includes:

• Ontologies in Biomedicine and bioinformatics.
• Ontologies of diseases, nursing, therapeutics, drug, etc.
• Upper level concepts of healthcare and life sciences ontologies.
• Semantic metadata for Clinical Data Interchange.
• Semantics of medical XML standards and vocabularies.
• Multilinguality in Biomedicine and bioinformatics ontologies.
• Best practice and semantic patterns in ontology modeling and evaluation

Contact:
Werner Ceusters, Werner.Ceusters@Ontology-Advisory.org , The OOA-HLS Chair

Ongoing Activities:
• Quality Guidelines for Ontology Authoring
• The Use Cases Studio
• The OnToContent 2007 workshop

Previous Activities:
• The OnToContent 2006 workshop