- From: Olivier Bodenreider <olivier@nlm.nih.gov>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:32:19 -0500
- To: "Kashyap, Vipul" <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- CC: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>, dirk.colaert@agfa.com, wangxiao@musc.edu, w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
Kashyap, Vipul wrote: > Is there any work in the literature related to: > > - Defining what and when a version is? > - Do all updates necessarily lead to a new version? > - Is there a utility to instance versioning? > > The observation about the utility of knowledge base update and revision is an > astute one. IMHO the utility of instance versioning is not clear either. > > Just my 2 cents, > > A couple of classical references in medical informatics about evolution of biomedical terminologies: Oliver DE, Shahar Y. Change management of shared and local versions of health-care terminologies. Methods Inf Med. 2000 Dec;39(4-5):278-90. Review. PMID: 11191695 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Oliver DE, Shahar Y, Shortliffe EH, Musen MA. Representation of change in controlled medical terminologies. Artif Intell Med. 1999 Jan;15(1):53-76. Review. PMID: 9930616 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Oliver DE. Synchronization of diverging versions of a controlled medical terminology. Proc AMIA Symp. 1998;:850-4. PMID: 9929339 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Hartel FW, Fragoso G, Ong KL, Dionne R. Enhancing quality of retrieval through concept edit history. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2003;:279-83. PMID: 14728178 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] -- Dr. Olivier Bodenreider Staff Scientist National Library of Medicine 8600 Rockville Pike - MS 3841 (Bldg 38A, Rm B1N28U) Bethesda, MD 20894 - USA phone: 301 435-3246 - fax: 301 480-3035
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