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A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study
BACKGROUND: There is a variety of libre/free and open-source software (LIFOSS) products for medicine and health care. To support health care and IT professionals select an appropriate software product for given tasks, several comparison studies and web platforms, such as Medfloss.org, are available....
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9898829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36662569 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/38861 |
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author | Jahn, Franziska Ammenwerth, Elske Dornauer, Verena Höffner, Konrad Bindel, Michelle Karopka, Thomas Winter, Alfred |
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description | BACKGROUND: There is a variety of libre/free and open-source software (LIFOSS) products for medicine and health care. To support health care and IT professionals select an appropriate software product for given tasks, several comparison studies and web platforms, such as Medfloss.org, are available. However, due to the lack of a uniform terminology for health informatics, ambiguous or imprecise terms are used to describe the functionalities of LIFOSS. This makes comparisons of LIFOSS difficult and may lead to inappropriate software selection decisions. Using Linked Open Data (LOD) promises to address these challenges. OBJECTIVE: We describe LIFOSS systematically with the help of the underlying Health Information Technology Ontology (HITO). We publish HITO and HITO-based software product descriptions using LOD to obtain the following benefits: (1) linking and reusing existing terminologies and (2) using Semantic Web tools for viewing and querying the LIFOSS data on the World Wide Web. METHODS: HITO was incrementally developed and implemented. First, classes for the description of software products in health IT evaluation studies were identified. Second, requirements for describing LIFOSS were elicited by interviewing domain experts. Third, to describe domain-specific functionalities of software products, existing catalogues of features and enterprise functions were analyzed and integrated into the HITO knowledge base. As a proof of concept, HITO was used to describe 25 LIFOSS products. RESULTS: HITO provides a defined set of classes and their relationships to describe LIFOSS in medicine and health care. With the help of linked or integrated catalogues for languages, programming languages, licenses, features, and enterprise functions, the functionalities of LIFOSS can be precisely described and compared. We publish HITO and the LIFOSS descriptions as LOD; they can be queried and viewed using different Semantic Web tools, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) browsers, SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries, and faceted searches. The advantages of providing HITO as LOD are demonstrated by practical examples. CONCLUSIONS: HITO is a building block to achieving unambiguous communication among health IT professionals and researchers. Providing LIFOSS product information as LOD enables barrier-free and easy access to data that are often hidden in user manuals of software products or are not available at all. Efforts to establish a unique terminology of medical and health informatics should be further supported and continued. |
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spelling | pubmed-98988292023-02-05 A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study Jahn, Franziska Ammenwerth, Elske Dornauer, Verena Höffner, Konrad Bindel, Michelle Karopka, Thomas Winter, Alfred JMIR Med Inform Original Paper BACKGROUND: There is a variety of libre/free and open-source software (LIFOSS) products for medicine and health care. To support health care and IT professionals select an appropriate software product for given tasks, several comparison studies and web platforms, such as Medfloss.org, are available. However, due to the lack of a uniform terminology for health informatics, ambiguous or imprecise terms are used to describe the functionalities of LIFOSS. This makes comparisons of LIFOSS difficult and may lead to inappropriate software selection decisions. Using Linked Open Data (LOD) promises to address these challenges. OBJECTIVE: We describe LIFOSS systematically with the help of the underlying Health Information Technology Ontology (HITO). We publish HITO and HITO-based software product descriptions using LOD to obtain the following benefits: (1) linking and reusing existing terminologies and (2) using Semantic Web tools for viewing and querying the LIFOSS data on the World Wide Web. METHODS: HITO was incrementally developed and implemented. First, classes for the description of software products in health IT evaluation studies were identified. Second, requirements for describing LIFOSS were elicited by interviewing domain experts. Third, to describe domain-specific functionalities of software products, existing catalogues of features and enterprise functions were analyzed and integrated into the HITO knowledge base. As a proof of concept, HITO was used to describe 25 LIFOSS products. RESULTS: HITO provides a defined set of classes and their relationships to describe LIFOSS in medicine and health care. With the help of linked or integrated catalogues for languages, programming languages, licenses, features, and enterprise functions, the functionalities of LIFOSS can be precisely described and compared. We publish HITO and the LIFOSS descriptions as LOD; they can be queried and viewed using different Semantic Web tools, such as Resource Description Framework (RDF) browsers, SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) queries, and faceted searches. The advantages of providing HITO as LOD are demonstrated by practical examples. CONCLUSIONS: HITO is a building block to achieving unambiguous communication among health IT professionals and researchers. Providing LIFOSS product information as LOD enables barrier-free and easy access to data that are often hidden in user manuals of software products or are not available at all. Efforts to establish a unique terminology of medical and health informatics should be further supported and continued. JMIR Publications 2023-01-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9898829/ /pubmed/36662569 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/38861 Text en ©Franziska Jahn, Elske Ammenwerth, Verena Dornauer, Konrad Höffner, Michelle Bindel, Thomas Karopka, Alfred Winter. Originally published in JMIR Medical Informatics (https://medinform.jmir.org), 20.01.2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Informatics, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://medinform.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Jahn, Franziska Ammenwerth, Elske Dornauer, Verena Höffner, Konrad Bindel, Michelle Karopka, Thomas Winter, Alfred A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study |
title | A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study |
title_full | A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study |
title_fullStr | A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study |
title_full_unstemmed | A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study |
title_short | A Linked Open Data–Based Terminology to Describe Libre/Free and Open-source Software: Incremental Development Study |
title_sort | linked open data–based terminology to describe libre/free and open-source software: incremental development study |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9898829/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36662569 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/38861 |
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