Table 2 Glossary of terms
From: Toward knowledge support for analysis and interpretation of complex traits
Term | Description |
|---|---|
Annotation | Descriptions that are added to data such as text |
Curation | Representation of data (for example, biological data sets) through annotations (for example, through ontologies) |
Entity/quality | A conceptual model of a term according to (a) an entity part that denotes an anatomical or process part and (b) a quality part that characterises how the entity is affected |
Grounding | To establish the specific reference of a term according to an ontology |
Mention | A sequence of words in a text that denotes a term according to some external reference system |
Pre-composed (pre-coordinated) term | A term that has been affirmed and defined as a whole without division into its constituent parts |
Post-composed (post-coordinated) term | A term that is defined according to the decomposition of its constituent parts and the grounding of those parts in one or more external ontologies |
Ontology | A specification of a conceptualization |
OWL | The Web Ontology Language is a family of formal languages intended to aid machine understanding of resources on the World Wide Web |
RDF | Resource Description Framework is family of specifications for describing resources on the World Wide Web. It is a World Wide Web Consortium standard |
Semantic Web | A collaborative movement to promote common data formats for data re-use by machines |