Re: Linked Data for ICD? OPCS-4?

> Before I go creating them, does anyone know of a Linked Data source
> for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)[1] and/or the 
> OPCS-4 classification scheme for interventions [2]?

Does it need to be 'Linked Data' (i.e. resolvable URIs) or would any RDF/OWL 
do?
Cardillo et al. have a paper were they  claim to have created an OWL version 
of ICD-10:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/b225335809376016/
but I am not sure if the URIs  would be linked data compliant; probably not. 
I remember having come across other RDF versions of ICD-9, but I guess they 
would not be linked data compliant either.

Besides, many Wikipedia entries have links to ICD-10 codes, which are also 
represented in DBpedia (although in a slightly messy way). Example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
http://dbpedia.org/page/Fatal_familial_insomnia

If it turns out that concepts from ICD-10 are entirely contained in DBpedia, 
then maybe using DBpedia URIs directly could be an option.

Cheers,
Matthias Samwald

DERI Galway, Ireland
http://deri.ie/

Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria
http://kli.ac.at/ 

Received on Sunday, 4 October 2009 23:36:51 UTC