Conceptual Model Formalization in a Semantic Interoperability Service Framework: Transforming Relational Database Schemas to OWL.
Healthcare information is distributed through multiple heterogeneous and autonomous systems. Access to, and sharing of, distributed information sources are a challenging task. To contribute to meeting this challenge, this paper presents a formal, complete and semi-automatic transformation service from Relational Databases to Web Ontology Language. The proposed service makes use of an algorithm that allows to transform several data models of different domains by deploying mainly inheritance rules. The paper emphasizes the relevance of integrating the proposed approach into an ontology-based interoperability service to achieve semantic interoperability.
Computational Intelligence Research Group, University of Cauca, Colombia.
Carlos
C
Bravo
Computational Intelligence Research Group, University of Cauca, Colombia.
Carlos
C
Suarez
Computational Intelligence Research Group, University of Cauca, Colombia.
Carolina
C
González
Telematics Engineering Research Group, University of Cauca, Colombia.
Diego
D
López
Medical Faculty, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Bernd
B
Blobel
D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000592:standards*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards*; D000073892:Health Information Interoperability / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software / Q000592:standards*; D018511:Systems Integration