Community: Learning About Ontologies
What are Ontologies?
An ontology is a kind of controlled vocabulary of well defined terms with specified relationships between those terms, capable of interpretation by both humans and computers.
Biomedical ontologies are being developed to express data in ways that can be read by computers, and shared between experiments and data sources to accommodate the proliferation of data in this new information age.
Videos
- Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies, Jennifer Smith, Medical College of Wisconsin
A series of 4 videos on biomedical ontologies. Each video is 5-10 minutes.
- Introduction to Biomedical Ontologies, Barry Smith, University at Buffalo
A series of 8 videos from a two-day course on biomedical ontologies. Each video is 1-2 hours.
- From Aristotle to the Universal Core, Barry Smith, University at Buffalo
A series of 8 videos from a two-day course on ontologies. This course is not specific to biomedical ontologies. Each video is 1-2 hours.
NCBO Educational Materials & Publications