Ontology Engineering Enterprise Services

Putting an ontology to practical use requires the implementation of ontology driven models and the tools that enable the development, management, and distribution of these models across the public health network. This session will show how the public health reference ontology can be used to increase information and knowledge standardization and interoperability across the public health domain.

This workshop training session will provide attendees an understanding of how the public health ontology is used to create ontology driven models and enterprise level services.  We will describe the various knowledge representations and how these representations are extracted from the public health reference ontology.  A number of examples will be shown including the National Notifiable Disease Extended Query Service, the TB Message Content Validation Ontology and Reasoner, and the BioSense Classification Knowledgebase.This Session will provide an overview of how the reference ontology can be used to produce reusable services with standardized domain knowledge and advanced reasoning services.