Title
An approach to compare bio-ontologies portals.
Abstract
Background: main biomedical information retrieval systems are based on controlled vocabularies and most specifically on terminologies or ontologies (T/O). These classification structures allow indexing, coding, annotating different kind of documents. Many T/O have been created for different purposes and it became a problem for finding specific concepts in the multitude of existing nomenclatures. The NCBO (National Center for Biomedical Ontologies) BioPortal and the CISMeF (Catalogue et Index des Sites Medicaux de langue Franyaise) HeTOP projects have been developed to tackle this issue. Objective: the present work consists in comparing both portals. Methods: we hereby are proposing a set of criteria to compare bio-ontologies portals in terms of goals, features, technologies and usability. Results: BioPortal and HeTOP have been compared based on the given criteria. While both portals are designed to store and make T/O available to the community and are sharing many basic features, they differ on several points mainly because of their basic purposes. Conclusion: thanks to the comparison criteria, we can assume that a merge between BioPortal and HeTOP is possible in terms of functionalities. The main difficulties will be about merging the data repositories and applying different policies on T/O content.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/978-1-61499-432-9-1008
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Controlled Vocabulary,Internet,Information Storage and Retrieval,Terminology as subject,Health terminologies and ontologies,Crosslingual access to health information,Portal
Ontology (information science),Information retrieval,Open Biomedical Ontologies,Usability,Search engine indexing,Knowledge management,Controlled vocabulary,Coding (social sciences),Merge (version control),Medicine,The Internet
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
205
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Julien Grosjean1419.04
Lina Fatima Soualmia29820.27
Khedidja Bouarech300.34
Clement Jonquet467357.77
Stéfan Jacques Darmoni526052.57