- From: Chimezie Ogbuji <ogbujic@bio.ri.ccf.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:17:47 -0400 (EDT)
- To: public-grddl-wg <public-grddl-wg@w3.org>
> 5) Chime/DanC - any ideas for a clinical data use case? I re-worked this one, per Harry's request into a 3rd person tone: Kayode, a developer for a clinical research data management system, uses XML as the 'main' representation format organized around a computer-based patient record, edits the XML remotely (on a variety of devices) via XForms, submits the XML document to a unique URI for each such record using the HTTP PUT method. He would like to use 4Suite's content management services which include a mechanism to automatically transforms an XML document to an RDF equivalent graph for persistence in synchrony with any changes to the document. The expense of dual representation is space, but the primary value is being able to query both as XML and as RDF. The developer has found RDF queries more amenable for investigative querying. Kayode realizes A GRDDL approach could alleviate this expense by allowing a computer-based patient record or any XML-based collection of clinical research data to be queried semantically by associating a GRDDL profile to the specific XML vocabulary. This would help manage research projects assigned to residents while trying to determine an initial search criteria for a patient population relevant to his or her particular study. Each study might have a set of classifications specific to the study that they could express as logical rules or in an ontology. Kayode could design a web-based user interface that worked with a client that understood GRDDL and could pick computer-based patient records from a remote server (as XML documents). Each would be associated with a GRDDL profile that extracted clinical data as RDF expressed in a universally supported vocabulary for a computer-based patient record. The residents could then ask speculative questions of the resulting RDF graph or apply the study-specific rules on the resulting RDF to classify the data according to his domain of interest (specific diagnoses, pathological observations, etc..) Chimezie Ogbuji Lead Systems Analyst Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Cleveland Clinic Foundation 9500 Euclid Avenue/ W26 Cleveland, Ohio 44195 Office: (216)444-8593 ogbujic@ccf.org
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