- From: Matthias Samwald <samwald@gmx.at>
- Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 01:36:16 +0200
- To: "Jeni Tennison" <jeni@jenitennison.com>, <public-lod@w3.org>, "public-semweb-lifesci" <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> Before I go creating them, does anyone know of a Linked Data source > for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)[1] and/or the > OPCS-4 classification scheme for interventions [2]? Does it need to be 'Linked Data' (i.e. resolvable URIs) or would any RDF/OWL do? Cardillo et al. have a paper were they claim to have created an OWL version of ICD-10: http://www.springerlink.com/content/b225335809376016/ but I am not sure if the URIs would be linked data compliant; probably not. I remember having come across other RDF versions of ICD-9, but I guess they would not be linked data compliant either. Besides, many Wikipedia entries have links to ICD-10 codes, which are also represented in DBpedia (although in a slightly messy way). Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia http://dbpedia.org/page/Fatal_familial_insomnia If it turns out that concepts from ICD-10 are entirely contained in DBpedia, then maybe using DBpedia URIs directly could be an option. Cheers, Matthias Samwald DERI Galway, Ireland http://deri.ie/ Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria http://kli.ac.at/
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