Ricerc@Sapienza

This project aims at applying ontology-based data management models, methods and technologies to gather, integrate and analyze data about health-related quality of life of cancer patients. Our specific goals are: 1) the construction of an ontology about health-related quality of life of cancer patients; 2) the application of such an ontology in the development of an application for gathering, integrating and analyzing information about the quality of life of thyroid cancer patients. The adoption of the ontology-based data management methods and techniques allows for both flexible and extendible solutions and for the tight integration with existing data and meta-data resources and standards (vocabularies, ontologies) in the field of health-related quality of life of cancer patients. Moreover, we plan to extend the current OBDM technology to take into account the privacy and data protection issues of the above application domain.