Re: Yosemite Manifesto on RDF as a Universal Healthcare Exchange Language

On 06/07/2013 01:40 PM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> Not a single word about privacy and dangers in the position statement ?
> Strange...

Right.  Privacy is very important, but orthogonal: privacy requirements 
would apply to *any* information representation language.  The intent 
was to keep the Yosemite Manifesto very simple and focused.

David

>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Brunnbauer
>
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 01:03:17PM -0400, David Booth wrote:
>> FYI, there is an excellent article on SemanticWeb.com about the workshop
>> held this week at the SemTech conference, on "RDF as a Universal
>> Healthcare Exchange Language", which culminated in a position statement
>> called the "Yosemite Manifesto":
>> http://goo.gl/eibDL
>>
>> Here is the manifesto itself:
>> http://goo.gl/mBUrZ
>> [[
>> Yosemite Manifesto on RDF as a Universal Healthcare Exchange Language
>>
>> 1. RDF is the best available candidate for a universal healthcare
>> exchange language.
>>
>> 2. Electronic healthcare information should be exchanged in a format
>> that either: (a) is an RDF format directly; or (b) has a standard
>> mapping to RDF.
>>
>> 3. Existing standard healthcare vocabularies, data models and exchange
>> languages should be leveraged by defining standard mappings to RDF, and
>> any new standards should have RDF representations.
>>
>> 4. Government agencies should mandate or incentivize the use of RDF as a
>> universal healthcare exchange language.
>>
>> 5. Exchanged healthcare information should be self-describing, using
>> Linked Data principles, so that each concept URI is de-referenceable to
>> its free and open definition.
>> ]]
>>
>> Anyone who wants may add their name to the list of signatories:
>> http://goo.gl/mBUrZ
>> (Please do!)  And please pass it on, tweet it, google+ it, FaceBook it,
>> etc.  With enough visibility, maybe we can get the right attention to
>> make this happen and make a difference in healthcare!
>>
>> David Booth
>

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