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

Good to see this change. Will this make RIM more usable? 

--Sivaram

On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Michael Miller wrote:

> hi charlie,
> 
> that's great, thanks
> 
> michael
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] [mailto:meadch@mail.nih.gov]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:01 AM
>> To: Michael Miller
>> Cc: David Booth; public-semweb-lifesci
>> Subject: RE: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal
>> Exchange Language of Healthcare
>> 
>> Hi Michael --
>> 
>> Yes...and to make sure of that fact, Lloyd McKenzie, the author of the
> MIF,
>> was the person who wrote the transforms.  It was quite an effort which
> he is
>> just finishing the documentation.
>> 
>> charlie
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Michael Miller [Michael.Miller@systemsbiology.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:52 AM
>> To: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]
>> Cc: David Booth; public-semweb-lifesci
>> Subject: RE: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal
>> Exchange Language of Healthcare
>> 
>> hi charlie,
>> 
>> and is OWL able to capture everything about the MIF so no information is
>> lost?  (i would be surprised if it didn't)
>> 
>> michael
>> 
>> Michael Miller
>> Software Engineer
>> Institute for Systems Biology
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] [mailto:meadch@mail.nih.gov]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:08 PM
>>> To: Renato Iannella; 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
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> ________________________________________
>>> 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;-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Cheers...
>>> Renato Iannella
>>> Semantic Identity
>>> http://semanticidentity.com
>>> Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206
>>> 
>>> [1]
>>> 
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/sports_dynamic_semanti
>>> c.html
> 

Received on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 20:19:54 UTC