Table 2.
Glossary of terms
| 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 |