Building a semantic web services ontology in the pharmaceutical field using the OWL-S Language

The pharmaceutical field is of paramount importance to the health sector, especially designed to provide pharmaceutical Web services to pharmacists, doctors, nurses and also to the general public. At present, the pharmaceutical Web services are described in a syntactic way (expressed in natural language) and therefore difficult to treat by the machine, so it is necessary to use semantic web service techniques by the construction of pharmaceutical ontological resources and adding semantic to the pharmaceutical web services. In our work, we built two ontologies, the first ontology named “Pharmaceutical domain ontology”, it was created by following the “METHONTOLOGY” method and using “OWL language” and “OWL-PROTÉGÉ” tool. The second ontology named “Pharmaceutical Web services ontology”, it was created by using OWL-S language and OWLS-E-P tool (OWL-S EDITOR for PROTÉGÉ), to implement the Web services we use “NetBeans IDE”. The construction of these ontologies is very important to improve the quality of healthcare services.