Development of an Ontologies System for Spatial Biomedical Applications

In this paper a process of creating ontologies system based on other existing ontologies is described, in order to response biomedical spatial queries on the Web. GeOntoMex is a Mexican spatial ontology, which is structured according to its political-administrative division, in addition, axioms are defined to represent the spatial relationships between geographic entities. Moreover, the Health Onto Mex ontology, whose structure corresponds to the INEGI´s taxonomy (National Institute of Statistics and Geography) health services, is presented. Later, a system based on the aforementioned ontologies is shown. The system named Geo Health Onto Mex, could lead to more accurate user queries that requires a specific medical service in a given geographical area.