- From: Hugh Glaser <hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 21:05:27 +0100
- To: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>, John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
- CC: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Jim McCusker <mccusker@gmail.com>, "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, w3c semweb HCLS <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, "M. Scott Marshall" <marshall@science.uva.nl>
Don't understand all this, but just making sure you know about: http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/drugbank/ http://data.linkedct.org/ But be careful; drugbank has sameAs to a lot of interventions, which is not strictly correct, I understand. Cheers Hugh On 04/10/2009 20:56, "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote: > 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
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