A Contemporary Review on Utilizing Semantic Web Technologies in Healthcare, Virtual Communities, and Ontology-Based Information Processing Systems

Abstract

The semantic web is an emerging technology that helps to connect different users to create their content and also facilitates the way of representing information in a manner that can be made understandable for computers. As the world is heading towards the fourth industrial revolution, the implicit utilization of artificial-intelligence-enabled semantic web technologies paves the way for many real-time application developments. The fundamental building blocks for the overwhelming utilization of semantic web technologies are ontologies, and it allows sharing as well as reusing the concepts in a standardized way so that the data gathered from heterogeneous sources receive a common nomenclature, and it paves the way for disambiguating the duplicates very easily. In this context, the right utilization of ontology capabilities would further strengthen its presence in many web-based applications such as e-learning, virtual communities, social media sites, healthcare, agriculture, etc. In this paper, we have given the comprehensive review of using the semantic web in the domain of healthcare, some virtual communities, and other information retrieval projects. As the role of semantic web is becoming pervasive in many domains, the demand for the semantic web in healthcare, virtual communities, and information retrieval has been gaining huge momentum in recent years. To obtain the correct sense of the meaning of the words or terms given in the textual content, it is deemed necessary to apply the right ontology to fix the ambiguity and shun any deviations that persist on the concepts. In this review paper, we have highlighted all the necessary information for a good understanding of the semantic web and its ontological frameworks.

MetaOntology: Toward developing an ontology for the metaverse

“…The authoring environment and previously proposed visual data structure that could make it easier for non-technical specialists to create and author XR resources can both benefit from the semantic modeling that was established in their work. Incorporating ontology and semantic web technology to offer a better conceptual understanding of domains that interlinks with VR has also been addressed and reported (Mohamad et al, 2021 ; Asogwa et al, 2022 ; Dagobert and Helfer, 2022 ; Narayanasamy et al, 2022 ).…”

OntoImVid-ontology based semantic image/video processing

“…Narayanasamy et al [11] concentrated on the use of semantic web technologies in healthcare, virtual communities, and how the information retrieval task was performed effectively to find hidden knowledge and establishes a strong contribution by utilising ontological sources such as Wiki data, DBpedia, and Schema.org. The introduction of semantic web technologies has created a simple application interface for reducing hidden linkages among possible real-world entities and increasing concept compatibility.…”

Desenvolvimento de uma plataforma baseada no conhecimento para dar suporte à integração, análise e visualização dos dados de uma rede pública de atenção em saúde mental

“…Processos como o controle e a organização de políticas de saúde pública, de serviços de saúde, de recursos e de qualidade do atendimento, podem ser prejudicados pela falta de dados para apoiar a definição de indicadores gerenciais. Entre os principais fatores que influenciam negativamente o processo de tomada de decisão em saúde, podemos destacar a baixa qualidade, disponibilidade e interoperabilidade de dados epidemiológicos e administrativos de saúde (YOSHIURA, 2020;ALVES et al, 2021;NARAYANASAMY et al, 2022). Apesar da existência de tais dados, existem razões que inviabilizam o acesso a eles por parte de gestores e profissionais de saúde.…”

“…Podemos observar ainda que há um desprovimento de dados contextualizados em sistemas de informação tradicionais (ONG et al, 2016;NARAYANASAMY et al, 2022). No Brasil, existem dificuldades para registrar, coletar e acessar as informações de uma Rede de Atenção Psicossocial (RAPS) .…”

“…O modelo semântico de organização de dados na web é essencial para o desenvolvimento de plataformas baseadas em conhecimento (ABHISHEK; SINGH, 2016; YOSHIURA, 2020). Esta tecnologia é composta por algoritmos, conceitos e padrões informacionais que, quando arquitetados de maneira lógica, fornecem a capacidade de indexar, padronizar, estruturar e disponibilizar a informação contextualizada produzida (PELLISON et al, 2017;NARAYANASAMY et al, 2022).…”