SWAN (Semantic Web Applications in Neuromedicine)

The SWAN project makes use of the "SWAN ontology" [1]. This ontology, which was originally organized in a single block, has been modularized to foster reusability and integration with other existing ontologies in a software ecosystem. Thus, when we refer to the SWAN ontology, we refer to the collection of ontologies used by our software ecosystem to create, manage and share SWAN knowledge bases. In general, an ontology, together with a set of instances of its classes, constitutes a knowledge base. A SWAN knowledge base is a database collecting knowledge about scientific discourse in one particular domain (for example Alzheimer disease). It is organized in RDF triples and its structure is specified by the SWAN ontology.