Ontologias como ferramenta de organização e representação do conhecimento: um olhar sobre os laudos médico-legais

Abstract

The organization and the representation of knowledge are both a very important activity in the Information Science, from the function of mediation between the production process and its organization, until the access to information. In this context, this study points out the ontology that brings in its semantics the study of things, objects and beings of the world. It also approaches the scope of Legal Medicine, specifically the medical-legal report, which is a technical-scientific report about a litigious fact, questionable, carried out by specialists. The reports are characterized as cadaveric, sexological, traumatological and legal odonto. In this respect, this study aims to understand how the ontology can contribute to deal with the informational needs of users, who have been seen by the Legal Medicine Coordination, by considering the organization, access and information retrieval. As scientific method, it was used the methontology to carry the ontology out through the software called Protégé, and it was applied a questionnaire and also a documental analysis was done. It was verified that there is a perception by some of users about the relevance in managing information and, in their opinion, that practice would enable the workflow and its processes, by providing greater agility in answering replies; as well as the ‘ontomédico legal’ allows the formal and explicit description of the domain and the documentation produced by this area, making the workflows and its processes very possible.