Re: New proposal: health & medical extensions to schema.org

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On 16 May 2012, at 15:05, Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>  Aaron Brown (@google) and others have been working on a health/medical extension to schema.org ->  http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/. It's also linked on the W3 wiki at
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/MedicalHealthProposal, along with other proposals - http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas. Have a look at the medical/health proposal and tell us what you think - I'd love to hear from those that are active in creating or consuming web page content (SciDisc, atags, Mark Wilkinson's Personal Health Lens, etc).
> 
>  Reserve Friday June 1 @ 11am (Terminology task force slot) for a special meeting discuss the proposal and we'll craft some feedback for the public mailing list at public-vocabs@w3.org. 
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> m.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
> Date: Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:49 AM
> Subject: Fwd: New proposal: health & medical extensions to schema.org
> To: eric@w3.org, team-hcls-chairs@w3.org, Aaron Brown <abbrown@google.com>
> Cc: ivan@w3.org
> 
> 
> Eric, HCLS folk, Ivan,
> 
> I want to introduce you to Aaron Brown, and pass along his msg below
> introducing some work on health/medical markup for use in the public
> Web, part of the schema.org project which is a collaboration amongst
> several search engines to improve structured data usage within HTML.
> 
> Aaron has been busy with a pretty substantial medical/health
> vocabulary, and yesterday circulated a first public version for
> feedback/comments. I wanted to ask your advice on how best we might
> connect this with the various activities of the HCLS W3C group. The
> message below is public (see
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2012May/0057.html
> ), so we could just pass it along to the public HCLS list
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/ but if
> you've any thoughts on how best to interact with HCLS that would be
> really useful. The emphasis with the vocabulary Aaron's working on is
> on in-page HTML markup rather than full/deep ontology engineering,
> though there are obviously points of connection to such activities.
> I'll leave Aaron to discuss the details (see his note below or ask in
> this thread).
> 
> Thanks for any advice,
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
> ps. for a bit more background -
> The public-vocabs@w3.org list is the main feedback/discussion forum
> for the schema.org initiative. Within W3C it is the 'Web Schemas'
> taskforce of the Semantic Web group, which I  chair. I also btw have
> an @google affiliation for my schema.org work, though I don't formally
> represent Google at W3C. Basically the Web Schemas group serves as a
> liaison point between schema.org as an external entity, the W3C
> community, and other groups producing metadata vocabularies. More
> details c/o http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas ...
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Aaron Brown <abbrown@google.com>
> Date: 14 May 2012 22:56
> Subject: New proposal: health & medical extensions to schema.org
> To: public-vocabs@w3.org
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> As I’ve alluded to before on this list
> (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2012Feb/0053.html),
> over the past 6 months, a few of us at Google and other institutions
> have been working on a set of schema.org extensions to cover the
> health and medical domain. After several internal iterations and a lot
> of feedback from initial reviewers (including the US NCBI; physicians
> at Harvard, Stanford, and Duke; the major search engines; and a few
> health web sites), we think we have a solid draft and would like to
> open it for public feedback as a step toward incorporating it into
> schema.org.
> 
> The proposed health/medical schema can be found at
> http://schemaorg-medicalext.appspot.com/ which includes an
> introduction as well as a snapshot of the type hierarchy and several
> markup examples. It's also linked on the w3 wiki at
> http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebSchemas/MedicalHealthProposal. As you'll see
> this is a substantial piece of work, so we’d welcome feedback and
> detailed review comments on the specifics (please follow up to this
> email).
> 
> For those interested in more background on the approach: our goal is
> to create schema that webmasters and content publishers can use to
> mark up health and medical content on the web, with a particular focus
> on markup that will help patients, physicians, and generally
> health-interested consumers find relevant health information via
> search. The scope of coverage for the schema is broad, and is intended
> to cover both consumer- and professionally-targeted health and medical
> web content (of course, any particular piece of online health/medical
> content is likely to use only a subset of the schema). We’ve worked
> with physicians, consumer web sites, and government health
> organizations to get input into the key topics and properties to model
> and to refine the schema structure and type/property documentation.
> 
> Note that it is explicitly not our goal to replace the many very good
> and comprehensive medical ontologies, meta-thesaurii, or controlled
> vocabularies that have been created over the years; our focus has been
> instead on creating complementary, lightweight markup that surfaces
> the existence of and relationships between entities in health/medical
> web pages. When other ontologies and/or controlled vocabularies are
> available, our proposed schema can link to and take advantage of them,
> e.g. via the code property of MedicalEntity. It is also not an initial
> goal to support automated reasoning, medical records coding, or
> genomic tagging, as these would require substantially more detailed
> (and hence high barrier-to-entry) modeling and markup; they could be
> considered for future extensions.
> 
> We look forward to your feedback!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aaron Brown (Google)
> 
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> Aaron Brown | Senior Product Manager | Google, Inc. | New York, NY
> 
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