title: Alignment of ICNP® 2.0 ontology and a proposed INCP® Brazilian ontology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to align the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®) Version 2.0 ontology and a proposed INCP® Brazilian Ontology.
  
  
  METHODS
  document-based, exploratory and descriptive study, the empirical basis of which was provided by the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology and the INCP® Brazilian Ontology. The ontology alignment was performed using a computer tool with algorithms to identify correspondences between concepts, which were organized and analyzed according to their presence or absence, their names, and their sibling, parent, and child classes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  there were 2,682 concepts present in the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology that were missing in the Brazilian Ontology; 717 concepts present in the Brazilian Ontology were missing in the ICNP® 2.0 Ontology; and there were 215 pairs of matching concepts.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  it is believed that the correspondences identified in this study might contribute to the interoperability between the representations of nursing practice elements in ICNP®, thus allowing the standardization of nursing records based on this classification system.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carina Maris Gaspar
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Carvalho
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcia Regina
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Cubas
authors.affiliation: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
authors.forename: Andreia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Malucelli
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, PB, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Miriam Lima da
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Nóbrega
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D000072917:Standardized Nursing Terminology