ISO 21526 Conform Metadata Editor for FAIR Unicode SKOS Thesauri

Abstract

Metadata repositories are an indispensable component of data integration infrastructures and support semantic interoperability between knowledge organization systems. Standards for metadata representation like the ISO/IEC 11179 as well as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) by the World Wide Web Consortium were published to ensure metadata interoperability, maintainability and sustainability. The FAIR guidelines were composed to explicate those aspects in four principles divided in fifteen sub-principles. The ISO/IEC 21526 standard extends the 11179 standard for the domain of health care and mandates that SKOS be used for certain scenarios. In medical informatics, the composition of health care SKOS classification schemes is often managed by documentalists and data scientists. They use editors, which support them in producing comprehensive and valid metadata. Current metadata editors either do not properly support the SKOS resource annotations, require server applications or make use of additional databases for metadata storage. These characteristics are contrary to the application independency and versatility of raw Unicode SKOS files, e.g. the custom text arrangement, extensibility or copy & paste editing. We provide an application that adds navigation, auto completion and validity check capabilities on top of a regular Unicode text editor.

The Human Disease Ontology 2022 update

“…In the DO, terms from many different disease resources are integrated as database cross-references (xrefs) to DO terms. We introduced the use of Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) mapping terms ( https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/ ) ( 28 ) (skos:narrowMatch, skos:exactMatch and skos:broadMatch) to express mapping relationships and reconcile differences between the DO’s cross-references. SKOS mappings enable the DO to distinguish and define differences in ‘lumping and splitting’ of terms between vocabularies, with the skos:broadMatch utilized where the DO concept is broad and the xref is narrow (represents subtypes), and the skos:narrowMatch utilized where the DO concept is narrow (DO represents subtypes) and the xref is broad.…”