- From: John Madden <john.madden@duke.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 17:18:43 -0500
- To: "'public-semweb-lifesci'" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
- Cc: "'Eric Miller'" <em@w3.org>
Hi Everyone, It's wonderful to see all the smart and creative people whose introductions are filling my inbox. I'm an Associate Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical Center. I'm a full-time diagnostic surgical pathologist with a special interest in genitourinary pathology. I've been active in medical informatics for 10 or 15 years. Here at Duke, I'm the Medical Director for Informatics of Duke Health System Laboratories. I'm also co-chair of the new HL7 Pathology SIG. Before coming to pathology, I was a protein biochemist. I've been a member of the Editorial Board of SNOMED International for going on 5 years, and I've been asked to take on a liaison role for SNOMED to this group (not to exclude the likelihood of other SNOMED'ers also joining in). Of course as you might imagine, one of my interests is in medical ontologies/vocabularies. There is much wonderful content in SNOMED, and there is also lots of exciting work that needs to be done to make that content accessible according to web standards. At an even more fundamental level, I'm very committed to technologies that will help our community negotiate a transformation from the notion of "controlled vocabularies" of medicine to notions of distributed and federated medical ontology-building and sharing. My interests also cover document standards for Electronic Medical Records and clinical data exchange. I've worked a good deal with the HL7v3 Clinical Document Architecture; however I'm very nondogmatic and especially bullish on OASIS document and schema standards including DocBook, OpenDocument and the DSDL suite for health enterprise document exchange. For all these standards, there's much technical work yet to be done on metadata embedding techniques, particularly of RDF-family language content. This is a special interest of mine (RDF embedding in schematized document content), and I'm delighted to contemplate tapping all the fantastic experience of W3C members in the area of RDF in (X)HTML. Finally, I'm a devotee of the notion of "forms" (a.k.a. templates, etc.) in medicine, and I love the way forms constitute a mediating entity between structural and conceptual realms. As such, I think forms are a central concept in mediating between the notion of a document as a concrete object, and document as an expression of a thought. So, I'm a fan of Xforms integration into document schema standards, and of integration of forms technology and metadata technology. That's about it for me. I'm greatly looking forward to participating in the group. John -------------------------------- John F. Madden, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pathology Duke University Medical Center Box 3712 Room 3105 South Hospital Yellow Durham, NC 27710-3712
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