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This paper describes a new method for the ontologically based standardization of concepts in the medical domain. As an application of this method we developed a data dictionary which firstly focused on trial-specific context-dependent concepts and relations. The data dictionary has been provided to different medical research networks via the internet by means of the software tool Onto-Builder. It is based on an architecture which includes terminologies, domain-specific ontologies and the top-level categories of GOL. According to our approach top-level concepts are used to build definitions of domain-specific concepts on a firm ground through the process of ontological reduction, which is currently under development and the main ideas of which are outlined in this paper.
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Heller, B., Herre, H., Lippoldt, K. (2004). Domain-Specific Concepts and Ontological Reduction within a Data Dictionary Framework. In: Rahm, E. (eds) Data Integration in the Life Sciences. DILS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2994. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24745-6_4
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