A practical approach to create ontology networks in e-Health: The NeOn take

Ontological representation of the health domain is widespread. In particular the semantic description of drugs is being tackled in several ongoing initiatives. However, the resultant ontologies tend to be large and unmanageable. In recent years recommendations go towards the use of smaller, dynamic and interlinked ontologies to ease the ontology life-cycle. So far there have been attempts to build ontologies using this approach, but with very few methodological and tooling support. In this paper we propose to apply the notion of networked ontologies, methodology and tools developed within the NeOn project.