- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 20:56:42 +0100
- To: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
- Cc: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Jim McCusker <mccusker@gmail.com>, public-lod@w3.org, w3c semweb HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "M. Scott Marshall" <marshall@science.uva.nl>
On 4 Oct 2009, at 20:31, John Madden wrote: > Depends on what you want to do, exactly. I think interlinking some > prevalent medical vocabularies to dbpedia entries is a wonderful > project! I was just looking at the statistics we have on UK hospital episodes[1] which use ICD-10 to indicate the primary diagnosis related to the episode. I'm intending to model the statistics using SKOVO[2]. I was hoping to locate existing Linked Data URIs for the diagnoses that I could reuse rather than inventing our own (especially since it's an international standard). Having extra information associated with each of the diagnoses would be a bonus, since all I have from the spreadsheets are the code and a preferred term (which include some spelling mistakes from what I can see and certainly not all the information that's available online). Unfortunately from what I can tell the NCI Metathesaurus doesn't seem to define URIs that are possible to construct based on the ICD-10 codes. Or it does and I haven't been able to find them. I'd be grateful for any advice. > Would you be interested in talking to the HCLS Terminology group (I > chair it) about it on an upcoming Thursday morning call? I predict > you'd get a lot of interest and support -- even help, if you like. If the above still sounds interesting, and provided the timing works, sure. Cheers, Jeni [1]: http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer?siteID=1937&categoryID=203 [2]: http://sw.joanneum.at/scovo/schema.html -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com
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