@inproceedings{17fb90098ca342239aa682c94721ee8b,
title = "Taking a view on bio-ontologies",
abstract = "We present a technique for separating knowledge representation from application specific views that are currently often conflated within bio-ontologies. Many ontologies contain information for two tasks; one to represent the knowledge of some field of interest and another to support an application through providing views over ontologies that present the terms in a useful way for an application. We analyse this phenomenon in some bio-ontologies and suggest this separation of layers as a solution. We leave dedicated ontology languages like OWL and OBO to represent the knowledge of a field of interest, and use a more lightweight vocabulary, namely SKOS, to capture application specific views. We use this technique to encode a number of views inside the Experimental Factor Ontology. Each of these views serves a special purpose to different user communities; however, it does ensure the underlying ontology can remain for the annotation and integration of biological data. OWL and SKOS together provide a powerful, standards based, mechanism to reconstitute annotated biological data for many different application domains.",
author = "Simon Jupp and Andrew Gibson and James Malone and Helen Parkinson and Robert Stevens",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
volume = "897",
series = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings - KR-MED",
publisher = "RWTH Aachen University",
booktitle = "CEUR Workshop Proceedings|CEUR Workshop Proc.",
address = "Germany",
note = "3rd International Conference on Biomedical Ontology 2012, ICBO 2012 ; Conference date: 01-07-2012",
}