Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies. 2023.
After motivating a framework for evaluating top-down, middle-out, middle-in, and bottom-up
ontology development strategies, we apply our framework to investigate whether infectious
disease ontologies - specifically, the Virus Infectious Disease Ontology (VIDO) and the
Coronavirus Infectious Disease Ontology (CIDO) - effectively promote semantic
interoperability.