Re: Ontology Working Group Proposal Draft

Vipul and all:
This is a pretty good start.
I have inserted a few comments for possible consideration.
Amit


Kashyap, Vipul wrote:

>Vinay, 
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>I share your concern and that is why the goal is to come up and standardize with
>a set of use cases and work from there.
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>May be it needs to be clarified, but all the reports, questions etc. should
>be driven by the use cases and solution design requirements.
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>Cheers,
>
>---Vipul
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>Vipul Kashyap, Ph.D.
>Senior Medical Informatician
>Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System
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>To keep up you need the right answers; to get ahead you need the right questions
>---John Browning and Spencer Reiss, Wired 6.04.95
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Vinay K. Chaudhri [mailto:Vinay.Chaudhri@sri.com]
>>Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:26 AM
>>To: Kashyap, Vipul
>>Cc: public-semweb-lifesci; John Madden; wangxiao@musc.edu;
>>duncan.hull@cs.man.ac.uk; Robert Stevens; Amit Sheth @ LSDIS; Alfredo
>>Morales; Ullman-Cullere, Mollie; ray.hookway@hp.com; Mark Musen
>>Subject: Re: Ontology Working Group Proposal Draft
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>>Vipul,
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>>Thanks for sending out the draft...It is a good start.
>>
>>My main worry is whether the link to the scenarios is too tenuous in the
>>way things
>>are proposed.  It is easy to sink in lot of time in academic discussions
>>about ontology,
>>but we really want to be solving a concrete and specific problem.  So,
>>anything we can
>>do to keep us focused and grounded will be very helpful.
>>
>>Keep Smiling!
>>
>>Vinay
>>
>>
>>
>>Kashyap, Vipul wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>The draft proposal for the Ontology Working Sub-Group is attached with
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>>this
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>>>e-mail.
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>>>I recognize that this might need to be scoped down a little bit. Have
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>>tried to
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>>>identify collaboration points with the other sub-groups. The proposal
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>>identifies
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>>>"lead" parties for each of the deliverables.
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>>>This is a draft and any feedback and suggestions are most welcome.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>---Vipul
>>>
>>>=======================================
>>>Vipul Kashyap, Ph.D.
>>>Senior Medical Informatician
>>>Clinical Informatics R&D, Partners HealthCare System
>>>Phone: (781)416-9254
>>>Cell: (617)943-7120
>>>http://www.partners.org/cird/staff.asp?stAb=vik
>>>
>>>To keep up you need the right answers; to get ahead you need the right
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>>questions
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>>>---John Browning and Spencer Reiss, Wired 6.04.95
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