Ontology development for the masses: Creating ICD-11 in WebProtégé

Abstract. The World Health Organization is currently developing the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). ICD is the standard diagnostic classification used in health care all over the world. In contrast to previous ICD revisions that did not have a formal representation and were mainly available as printed books, ICD-11 uses OWL for the formal representation of its content. In this paper, we report on our work to support the collaborative development of ICD-11 in WebProtégé—a web-based ontology browser and editor. WebProtégé integrates collaboration features directly into the editing process. We report on the results of the evaluation that we performed during a two-week meeting with the ICD editors in Geneva. We performed the evaluation in the context of the editors learning to use WebProtégé to start the ICD-11 development. Participants in the evaluation were optimistic that collaborative development will work in this context, but have raised a number of critical issues. 1 Creating a Formal Representation of ICD-11 Ontologies and terminologies are a critical component of many knowledge-intensiv

Using semantic web technologies to build a community-driven knowledge curation platform for the skeletal dysplasia domain

In this paper we report on our on-going efforts in building SKELETOME – a community-driven knowledge curation platform for the skeletal dysplasia domain. SKELETOME introduces an ontologydriven knowledge engineering cycle that supports the continuous evolution of the domain knowledge. Newly submitted, undiagnosed patient cases undergo a collaborative diagnosis process that transforms them into well-structured case studies, classified, linked and discoverable based on their likely diagnosis(es). The paper presents the community requirements driving the design of the platform, the underlying implementation details and the results of a preliminary usability study. Because SKELETOME is built on Drupal 7, we discuss the limitations of some of its embedded Semantic Web components and describe a set of new modules, developed to handle these limitations (which will soon be released as open source to the community)