RE: Clinical terminologies to OWL

 
> I really like your idea of picking a specific subdomain, like drug  
> terminology, and using that to test out the pitfalls/possibilities.
> 
> (Actually, I think very domain-specific ontolgies have, as a 
> rule, the  
> strongest likelihood of short-term practical utility.)

I think this is a great suggestion. And more interestingly, the drug ontology
mapping
work we are doing in the COI task could be a concrete use case for this
conversion.

http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/ClinicalObservationsInteroperability/DrugMapping.ht
ml

We can try to integrate various perspectives in this:
- E-prescribing
- Drug Discovery
- Therapeutic Decision Support
- Mechanism of Action 
- ...

Cheers,

---Vipul

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Received on Thursday, 24 July 2008 18:23:05 UTC