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Stage validation ontology

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A set of OWL ontologies for validating cancer stage according to a variety of stage classifications. Each stage ontology is an OWL file that may require the importing of other OWL files. Some of these files can be found in the "TNM generic OWL files" link in this data set; other necessary files (e.g. ICD-O-3 and ICCC-3 ontologies) can be found in the associated data sets in the JRC data catalogue under the ECIS data collection

Contributors

Carmen Martos; Francesco Giusti; Nicholas Nicholson

How to cite

Nicholson, Nicholas; Martos, Carmen; Giusti, Francesco (2026): Stage validation ontology. European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.0RVAAQ0 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/9fa603ff-a118-41f3-82a2-bf8d4f0d7ea3

Keywords

cancer registriesontologystage validationTNM

Data access

TNM generic OWL files
OWL

OWL – Web Ontology Language – is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • Generic TNM files that the main TNM ontology editions need to import

TNM edition 7 ontology
OWL

OWL – Web Ontology Language – is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • Ontology for modelling TNM Edition 7 rules. The ontology is primarily targeted to TNM applications related to cancer registries

TNM edition 6 ontology
OWL

OWL – Web Ontology Language – is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • Ontology for modelling TNM Edition 6 rules. The ontology is primarily targeted to TNM applications related to cancer registries

Other resources

ontology import tree for the different stage validation ontologies
PNG

PNG – Portable Network Graphics – is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most widely used lossless image compression format on the Internet.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • schematic showing the imports necessary for the stage validation ontologies

Publications

Publication
TNM stage ontology for cancer registries
Nicholson, N.C., Giusti, F., Bettio, M. et al. A multipurpose TNM stage ontology for cancer registries. J Biomed Semant 13, 7 (2022)

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
nicholas.nicholson (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
irregular

The event occurs at uneven intervals.

Language(s)
English

English is a member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. It is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states and is now a global lingua franca.It is the third-most-common native language in the world and it is widely learned as a second language.

Data theme(s)
Health

dataset theme covering the domain of health which includes health conditions, diseases, treatments, healthcare services, and health policies

Geographical name(s)
European Union
Issued date
2021-02-03
Created date
03 Feb 2021 15:25
Modified date
21 Jul 2023 15:57
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/9fa603ff-a118-41f3-82a2-bf8d4f0d7ea3
Other identifiers
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