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    Ontology Development Strategies and the Infectious Disease Ontology Ecosystem
    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.
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    Middle architecture criteria
    with John Beverley, Mark Jensen, Carter-Beau Benson, and Barry Smith
    In Ítalo Oliveira (ed.), Joint Ontologies Workshops (JOWO), Ceur. pp. 1-12. 2024.
    Mid-level ontologies are used to integrate data across disparate domains using vocabularies more specific than top-level ontologies and more general than domain-level ontologies. There are no clear, defensible criteria for determining whether a given ontology should count as mid-level, because we lack a rigorous characterization of what the middle level of generality is supposed to contain. Attempts to provide such a characterization have failed, we believe, because they have focused on the goal…Read more