OpenClinical Open Source downloads: OpenKnoME (Knowledge Management Environment)

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Open Source models, methods, tools and applications

collaborative GRAIL knowledge management and ontological engineering environment

keywords	clinical domains
Ontological engineering, knowledge modelling, knowledge management, GRAIL, GALEN	not applicable

developed by	GALEN project, GALEN-In-Use project, OpenGALEN
released	2001
status	OpenKnoME is an open-source resource available to the academic and not-for-profit clinical terminology community.
download	OpenKnoME download Note: "OpenKnoME requires two pieces of closed source 3rd party software to function": Cincom's VisualWorks runtime virtual machine. The download bundle includes this software licensed for distribution for academic and non-commercial use only. An OpenGALEN compliant server. A time-limited version is available without cost from Kermanog. OpenKnoME is available under the topThing Open Source License (TOSL).

description
KnoME is designed to be a complete GRAIL knowledge management and ontological engineering environment. OpenKnoME is "an open-source resource for the academic and not-for-profit clinical terminology community. Among many other functions, it allows you to browse, make sense of, and compile the OpenGALEN Common Reference Model sources."

references

Rogers J, Roberts A, Solomon D, van der Haring E, Wroe C, Zanstra P, Rector A. GALEN ten years on: tasks and supporting tools. Medinfo. 2001; 10(Pt 1): 256-60.

[PubMed]

Abstract " The GALEN technology has matured over more than a decade of use. We describe a set of software tools and associated methodologies that together are supporting ontological engineering in a production, rather than a research setting. "

Rector AL, Bechhofer S, Goble CA, Horrocks I, Nowlan WA, Solomon WD. The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology. Artif Intell Med. 1997 Feb; 9(2): 139-71.

[PubMed] [Elsevier]

" The GALEN representation and integration language (GRAIL) has been developed to support effective clinical user interfaces and extensible re-usable models of medical terminology. It has been used successfully to develop the prototype GALEN common reference (CORE) model for medical terminology and for a series of projects in clinical user interfaces within the GALEN and PEN&PAD projects. GRAIL is a description logic or frame language with novel features to support part-whole and other transitive relations and to support the GALEN modelling style aimed at re-use and application independence. GRAIL began as an experimental language. However, it has clarified many requirements for an effective knowledge representation language for clinical concepts. It still has numerous limitations despite its practical successes. The GRAIL experience is expected to form the basis for future languages which meet the same requirements but have greater expressiveness and more soundly based semantics. This paper provides a description and motivation for the GRAIL language and gives examples of the modelling paradigm which it supports. "

contact	OpenGALEN
links	GALEN project [OC]

acknowledgements

Pieter Zanstra, Radboud University Nijmegen

page history

Entry on OpenClinical: 12 July 2003 (under separate topic)
Last main updates: 07 February 2004; 24 October 2006
Design - template v0.1: 21 September 2006

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