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

I'm not exactly sure what "more usable" actually means.  However, (for example), the FHIR initiative will have all RIM mappings of resource definitions represented in OWL.  This will enable design-time consistency checking and run-time surfacing of SPARQL end points for each resource.  In the end, that will make the content of the RIM both more usable from a developer's perspective and more available from a consumer's perspective.

Does that help at all?

charlie
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From: Sivaram Arabandi, MD [sivaram.arabandi@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:19 PM
To: Michael Miller
Cc: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]; David Booth; public-semweb-lifesci
Subject: 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
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>>>
>>> [1]
>>>
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/sports_dynamic_semanti
>>> c.html
>

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