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DebugIT: Ontology-mediated layered Data Integration for real-time Antibiotics Resistance Surveillance

Published inProceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2014), Editors Paschke A., Burger A., Romano P., Marshall M.S., Splendiani A.
Presented at Berlin (Germany), December 9-11, 2014
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  • CEUR Workshop Proceedings; 1320
Publication date2014
First online date2014
Abstract

Antibiotics resistance poses a significant problem in today’s hospital care. Although large amounts of resistance data are gathered locally, they cannot be compared globally due to format and access diversity. We present an ontology-based integration approach serving an EU project in making antibiotics resistance data semantically and geographically interoperable. We particularly focus on EU-wide clinical data integration for real-time antibiotic resistance surveillance. The data semantics is formalized by multiple layers of terminology-bound description logic ontologies. Local database-to-RDF (D2R) converters, normalizers and data wrapper ontologies render hospital data accessible to SPARQL queries, which populate a mediator layer. This semiformal data is then integrated and rendered comparable via formal OWL domain ontologies and rule-driven reasoning applications. The presented integration layer enables clinical data miners to query over multiple hospitals which behave like one homogeneous ‘virtual clinical information system’. We show how cross-site querying can be achieved across borders, languages and different data models. Aside the drawbacks, we elaborate on the unique advantages over comparable previous efforts, i.e. tackling real-time data access and scalability.

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Keywords
  • Ontology
  • Semantic Web
  • Data Integration
  • Interoperability
  • Antibiotics Resistance
  • Infection Monitoring
  • Data Linkage
  • Public Health Surveillance
  • Epidemiological Monitoring
  • Antibacterial Drug Resistance
  • Antibiotics
Funding
  • European Commission - Detecting and Eliminating Bacteria UsinG Information Technologies [217139]
Citation (ISO format)
SCHOBER, Daniel et al. DebugIT: Ontology-mediated layered Data Integration for real-time Antibiotics Resistance Surveillance. In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4LS 2014). Berlin (Germany). [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2014. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings)
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