OpenPVSignal: Advancing Information Search, Sharing and Reuse on Pharmacovigilance Signals via FAIR Principles and Semantic Web Technologies.

ABSTRACT: Signal detection and management is a key activity in pharmacovigilance (PV). When a new PV signal is identified, the respective information is publicly communicated in the form of periodic newsletters or reports by organizations that monitor and investigate PV-related information (such as the World Health Organization and national PV centers). However, this type of communication does not allow for systematic access, discovery and explicit data interlinking and, therefore, does not facilitate automated data sharing and reuse. In this paper, we present OpenPVSignal, a novel ontology aiming to support the semantic enrichment and rigorous communication of PV signal information in a systematic way, focusing on two key aspects: (a) publishing signal information according to the FAIR (Find

SUBMITTER: Natsiavas P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6028717 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature