Development of an Ontologies System for Spatial Biomedical Applications

Abstract

In this paper a process of creating ontologies system based on other existing ontologies is described, in order to response biomedical spatial queries on the Web. GeOntoMex is a Mexican spatial ontology, which is structured according to its political-administrative division, in addition, axioms are defined to represent the spatial relationships between geographic entities. Moreover, the Health Onto Mex ontology, whose structure corresponds to the INEGI's taxonomy (National Institute of Statistics and Geography) health services, is presented. Later, a system based on the aforementioned ontologies is shown. The system named Geo Health Onto Mex, could lead to more accurate user queries that requires a specific medical service in a given geographical area.