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The BSSO Foundry
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The behavioural and social sciences have produced a vast amount of research, yet the field faces substantial challenges. These include inconsistent and ambiguous use of terms across studies. Ontologies are structured frameworks to define terms and how they are related. They have been widely used in many areas of science, such as the biological and biomedical sciences. For example, the Gene Ontology describes and organises knowledge about the functions of genes across species. Recently, ontologies are being developed in the behavioural and social sciences to help systematically map and organise research plans and findings. For example, the Behaviour Change Intervention Ontology can be used to describe interventions that aim to change behaviour. However, to coordinate efforts, reduce duplication, and facilitate coherence and interoperability, we need a central community to enable exchange and support the use of ontologies. We have therefore set up the Behavioural and Social Sciences Ontology (BSSO) Foundry, a community of practice for the development, adoption, and use of ontologies within the behavioural and social sciences. We describe this initiative, including how to join and become involved.
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Funding Information: This work was supported by Wellcome [201524]; the Economic and Social Research Council under the Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) Leadership Hub [ES/Y001044/1]; the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under the Advancing Prevention Research In Cancer through Ontology Tools (APRICOT) project [U01CA291884]. Funding Information: The behavioural and social sciences do not currently have a method for ensuring that ontologies are interoperable across different research teams, although work being conducted as part of Behavioural Research UK \u2013 the DEMO-INTER project \u2013 is developing and evaluating a workflow for enabling ontologies in the behavioural and social sciences to be interoperable. This work will be built on as part of the APRICOT (Advancing Prevention Research In Cancer through Ontology Tools) project, funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health, which aims to further develop the BCIO for the domains of research methods, physical activity and smoking cessation as well as further develop ontology tools for the behavioural and social sciences community. Publisher Copyright: Copyright: © 2024 Hastings J et al.
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behavioural and social sciences community of practice interoperable ontology Medicine (miscellaneous) General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being