RE: question about medical code

I think they should model values for codingScheme as things rather than
as strings. That would be the SKOS way. They already have a forgiveness
clause for numbing things down to strings, but it's harder to row in the
opposite direction.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karen Coyle [mailto:kcoyle@kcoyle.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 3:13 PM
> To: public-schemabibex@w3.org
> Subject: question about medical code
> 
> Adrian has added the medical code to the Identifier page [1]. It looks
> to me like in its simplest form it could also be used for the
> minimalist approach to identifiers that I have proposed [2].
> Essentially, it only needs two properties:
> 
> codeValue 	Text 	The actual code.
> codingSystem 	Text 	The coding system, e.g. 'ICD-10'.
> 
> Of course, they have to be grouped as a single unit, which the medical
> code page calls "code":
> 
> code 	MedicalCode 	A medical code for the entity, taken from a
> controlled vocabulary or ontology such as ICD-9, DiseasesDB, MeSH,
> SNOMED-CT, RxNorm, etc.
> 
> I must admit that I find the properties here to be a bit circular but
> I'm going to assume that greater minds than mind have investigated
this
> and determined that it works.
> 
> I could add an example on my simplified identifier page, and/or could
> add a simplified example after Adrian's. Does that make sense?
> 
> I have one worry about using "code" however: I think that we, too,
will
> have codes that need to be described in this way. Will there need to
be
> a difference between codes of this type and identifiers? It seems to
me
> that folks are often using "identifier" to me an identifier for the
> focus of the description, whereas "code" could be, for example, a
> description element like "audience level" or "government document
> type."
> In practical usage, will we need both?
> 
> kc
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