@conference {IT505, title = {IT505: Towards a Standard Ontology Metadata Model}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

Bio-ontologies are becoming increasingly important in semantic alignment for data integration, information exchange, and semantic interoperability. Due to the large number of emerging bio-ontologies, it is challenging for ontology for their applications. Therefore, it is important to have a consistent terminology metadata model and a resource for discovering appropriate ontologies or other resource for use in annotating data. This paper aims to seek a common, shareable, and comprehensive method to create, disseminate, and consume metadata about terminology resources.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/IT505_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Hua Min and Stuart Turner and Sherri de Coronado and Brian Davis and Trish Whetzel and Robert R. Freimuth and Harold R. Solbrig and Richard Kiefer and Michael Riben and Grace A. Stafford and Lawrence Wright and Riki Ohira} } @conference {IT502, title = {IT502: Visualizing the {\textquotedblleft}Big Picture{\textquotedblright} of Change in NCIt{\textquoteright}s Biological Processes}, booktitle = {International Conference on Biomedical Ontology and BioCreative (ICBO BioCreative 2016)}, series = {Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative (2016)}, year = {2016}, month = {11/30/16}, publisher = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, organization = {CEUR-ws.org Volume 1747}, abstract = {

The National Cancer Institute thesaurus (NCIt) is a large and complex ontology. NCIt is frequently updated; a new release is made available approximately every month. Tracking structural changes in NCIt is important for the editors of its content. In this paper we describe a methodology and tool using diff partial-area taxonomies to visually summarize structural changes between two NCIt releases. Diff partial-area taxonomies provide a comprehensible view of the overall impact of the changes. This methodology is illustrated using the Biological Process hierarchy. Specifically, we illustrate how diff partial-area taxonomies reflect change that occurred due to major restructuring of this hierarchy between September 2004 and December 2004. During this time the hierarchy nearly doubled in size and a large portion of the classes were extensively modified. Several kinds of change patterns are identified and discussed.

}, url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1747/IT502_ICBO2016.pdf}, author = {Yehoshua Perl and Christopher Ochs and Sherri de Coronado and Nicole Thomas} }