Re: seeks input on Study Data Exchange Standards An alternative approach

On 22 Aug 2012, at 02:07, Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote:

>  As we dug a bit deeply into this issue and figured out how to define these mappings in OWL and make them available at run-time as RDF, it became clear that being able to publish -- or at least have the publishable form be accessible through a single transform -- resource definition files in SW-friendly terms would be a very positive feature of FHIR 

Hi Charlie - I assume the SemanticWeb-ification of FHIR is still not public?
(Ie I cannot see any reference in the FHIR spec [1])

Even though section 1.1 asserts:

"The resource contents are mapped to solid underlying ontologies and models using computable languages (including RDF) so that the definitions and contents of the resources can be leveraged by computational analysis and conversion processes"


Cheers 
Renato Iannella
Lead Architect, Information & Policy Services
nehta - National E-Health Transition Authority
Phone: +61 7 3023 8578  Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206

[1] http://www.hl7.org/implement/standards/fhir/fhir-book.htm