Modelling Medical Information and Knowledge with OWL and Topic Maps

摘要

Majority of facts about autoimmune diseases are shattered in various web sources. It is difficult to provide fundamental facts about specific autoimmune disease without spending a lot of time. The paper investigates the OWL and the Topic Maps standard for building of an information and knowledge repository including autoimmune diseases. This repository should facilitate findability of facts about autoimmune diseases. The OWL and the Topic Maps is compared with the RDF and the RDFS model for answering question which approach is more suitable for development of the repository.