Table 2 Differences between IDO and IDOMAL and steps (to be) taken to unify the ontologies
IDO-IDOMAL “comparison” | Action | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|
IDO: | symptom imported from OGMS, no children | ||
IDOMAL: | native term, 39 children | Imported/merged terms from Symptom Ontology | |
IDO: | endemicity is quality of a population | ||
IDOMAL: | endemicity is disposition | Changed in IDOMAL, now as in IDO | |
IDO: | habitat is site (material entity) | ||
IDOMAL: | habitat is spatial region | Changed in IDOMAL, now as in IDO | |
IDO: | breeding site absent | ||
IDOMAL: | Anopheles breeding site is a role | Changed to Anopheles breeding site role born by site (material entity) | |
IDO: | epidemiological types [of an infectious disease] absent | ||
IDOMAL: | epidemiological types of malaria present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | antiparasitic material entity is material entity bearing antiparasitic disposition | ||
IDOMAL: | antiparasitic drug is a role. | Issue solved in IDOMAL: antimalarial drug is a role born by a material entity which has antiparasitic disposition | Similar for antibiotic role/ disposition, etc. |
IDO: | resistance is a disposition | ||
IDOMAL: | resistance is quality (of (vector population) | Changed in IDOMAL, now as in IDO | |
IDO: | infection is a material entity | ||
IDOMAL: | infection is not present; infectious disposition is not present | No action needed | Terms are not needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | vector competence is not present | ||
IDOMAL: | vector competence is present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | infectious disease control is absent | ||
IDOMAL: | malaria control is present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | No terms for decision support systems, [disease] and vector control, intervention methods | ||
IDOMAL: | Corresponding terms present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | refractoriness is obsolete term | ||
IDOMAL: | refractoriness is present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | treatment is obsolete term in IDO | ||
IDOMAL: | treatment is present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | holoendemicity / hypoendemicity / mesoendemicity are missing | ||
IDOMAL: | terms are present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL |
IDO: | quality of infectious disease is absent | ||
IDOMAL: | quality of malaria is present | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL, acts as a placeholder for terms relating to malaria-specific interventions. |
IDO: | process of infectious disease is absent | ||
IDOMAL: | process of malaria is present | Discuss with IDO developers | |
IDO: | no differentiation between host/patient and pathogen | ||
IDOMAL: | differentiates between host/patient, vector and pathogen | Discuss with IDO developers | Needed in IDOMAL, coverage of physiological and pathophysiological processes occurring in host and/or vector and/or parasite. |