RE: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal Exchange Language of Healthcare

HL7 has just completed its first version of the entire MIF -- RIM + data types + vocabulary -- in OWL and is beginning to move to the use of SW as both a core design and run-time (RDF) artifact, the first instance of which will be manifest in the FHIR initiative.  Other activities on the radar are representation of all existing RIM-derived artifacts -- e.g. RMIMs and CDA templates -- in OWL.  There is definitely movement.

charlie
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From: Renato Iannella [ri@semanticidentity.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:48 PM
To: Tom Morris; public-semweb-lifesci
Cc: David Booth; RebholzSchuhmann; Joanne Luciano; Michel Dumontier; Conor Dowling; Rafael Richards
Subject: Re: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal  Exchange Language of Healthcare

On 16 Jan 2013, at 02:24, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the argument would be greatly strengthened by proof points to
> support the claims.  They don't need to be long and elaborate.

The best real-world example would be the BBC's Olympic Games system that used RDF [1].

I think the Response paper is ok (given the intended audience) - and any examples could get complex that actually showed the inferencing advantages of RDF/OWL....

The recommendation for "The HIT Policy Committee should seriously consider adopting RDF as a uniform, universal exchange language for healthcare..." would be probably be worthwhile going to HL7 as well;-)


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Renato Iannella
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[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/sports_dynamic_semantic.html

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