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Knowledge Management Framework for Emerging Infectious Diseases Preparedness and Response: Design and Development of
Zhizun Zhang1, Mila C Gonzalez2, Stephen S Morse2
1Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
JMIR Research Protocols
|October 13, 2017
Summary
An ontology-driven framework enhances public health knowledge management for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). This approach improves preparedness and response coordination by effectively sharing and reusing critical information.
Area of Science:
- Public Health Informatics
- Knowledge Management Systems
- Ontology Engineering
Background:
- Global preparedness for emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) faces challenges in timely, coordinated responses.
- Effective knowledge management is crucial for addressing these practical challenges.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop an ontology-driven knowledge management framework.
- To address challenges in sharing and reusing public health knowledge.
Main Methods:
- A systems engineering-inspired approach was used.
- Public health knowledge was decomposed into concepts and relations, organized by teleological functions.
- Knowledge and semantic rules were stored in an ontology for query retrieval.
Main Results:
- A hybrid concept extraction method was implemented.
- The ontology's quality was formally evaluated using the Ontology Quality Evaluation Framework.
Conclusions:
- The proposed framework offers a potentially effective method for managing public health knowledge.
- Ontology accuracy and comprehensiveness can be enhanced with more data.
- Developing public health knowledge-sharing standards, similar to Gene Ontology, is recommended.
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