Costaisa - OntoCRF: data collection and ontologies - OntoCRF

OntoCRF is a tool that centralises data collection in a structured manner through ontology design, formalising and expressing the content, concepts and relationships in a field of interest. Furthermore, it is integrated into a responsive web environment so that any support type can be used (web, tablet, smartphone, etc.).

This solution allows researchers to:

• Record and consolidate data
• Specify the data model and explicit inclusion of knowledge
• Create a collaboration environment and a user-friendly environment
• Enter data via the Internet from different work stations
• Use a multi-lingual option for any given research project
• Have access to tools such as agenda and event management, document and image library and discussion fora
• Subsequently perform data mining for analysis

 Advantages

• No development, database maintenance and web application registration costs
• No programming required
• Prototypes available from the beginning through pre-configured demos
• Automatic data storage and interface
• Integration standard compliance with other information systems
• Compliance with security and privacy requirements, through digital certificates and profile configuration
• Structured and non-redundant growth of the study scope. Using ontologies allows users:
  • To decide the level of complexity they wish to give the conceptual system
  • Flexibility in modifying and extending variables in real time
  • Model analysis and reuse
• To work independently from specialists in information systems for study parametrisation
• Relational databases that can export the information recorded to data analysis systems (e.g. SPSS, Excel, etc.).