Building ontology-based temporal databases for data reuse: An applied example on hospital organizational structures
Christina Khnaisser,
Vincent Looten,
Luc Lavoie
et al.
Abstract:Keeping track of data semantics and data changes in the databases is essential to support retrospective studies and the reproducibility of longitudinal clinical analysis by preventing false conclusions from being drawn from outdated data. A knowledge model combined with a temporal model plays an essential role in organizing the data and improving query expressiveness across time and multiple institutions. This paper presents a modelling framework for temporal relational databases using an ontology to derive a … Show more
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