Interoperabilidade e mapeamentos entre sistemas de organização do conhecimento: Bioportal of National Center for Biomedical Ontology-NCBO

Abstract

Introduction and Objective: The study presents results of a PhD research conducted between 2011-2015 regarding the analysis of the mappings between terms of BioPortal, a web portal that gives access to approximately 690 ontologies of the Biomedical area, developed by the National Center for Biomedical Ontology-NCBO. It discusses the method used to analyze the semantic consistency of the search results and the mappings between the terms of the ontologies that compose the BioPortal library. Method: bibliographical research in the last 10 years in databases of Information Science and Library Studies on Information Organization and Retrieval, interoperability and mapping between Knowledge Organization Systems and evaluation of search and retrieval methods and mapping between the terms of the BioPortal ontologies based on the recommendations of ISO 25964: 2: 2011 Part 2: Interoperability with other vocabularies. Results and conclusion: the use of interoperated and mapped SOCs for various information organization and retrieval applications, especially for the selection of terms for the construction of sensitive search strategies for information retrieval in the Health area is considered relevant. The recovery by coincidence of characters compromises the accuracy by means of the recovery of terms that do not correspond semantically to what was sought which consequently imposes the necessity of evaluation and selection of terms.