Thank you, Thomas, this looks very promising. I have placed an order so now I am waiting :-) Very considerate of you, many thanks. Kind regards, Rikard
2015-09-07 3:26 GMT+02:00 Thomas Beale <[email protected]>: > > A new book, *Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology *(BFO2) has > been published by Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear. > > Amazon.com > <http://www.amazon.com/Building-Ontologies-Basic-Formal-Ontology/dp/0262527812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441588367&sr=8-1&keywords=basic+formal+ontology> > Amazon.co.uk > <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Ontologies-Basic-Formal-Ontology/dp/0262527812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441588327&sr=8-1&keywords=basic+formal+ontology> > > I've read a pre-print, and this is an excellent book. Many of us here have > studied or used some of the key upper level ontologies (BFO, BioTopLite > etc), and I think BFO2 will probably end up being the one of choice for > general biomedicine. It contains all the concepts from Barry Smith's > earlier work (SNAP and SPAN - spatial and temporal regions, partonomy > concepts etc) and will ultimately (I have been told) contain/be merged with > a new version of the Information Artefact Ontology (IAO) which will > probably become the upper level ontology for describing types of > information that stand in the IS-ABOUT and similar relationships with real > world referents - in other words, EHR information items. > > My personal feeling is that in the next 2-5 years, we will finally see the > joining up of these key ontologies with information models and archetypes > in the clinical information space. It will be up to us in the openEHR > community and other related communities (13606, CIMI, HL7 etc) to engage > with this material and consider how this integration will be achieved. A > few very early ideas are mentioned in the Archetype Technology Overview > <http://www.openehr.org/releases/AM/latest/docs/Overview/Overview.html#_identification_and_the_virtual_archetype_space>document, > but of course this is just one narrow area of application. > > We need to all get on the same page in terms of understanding and > conceptual nomenclature in this space, and BFO2 I believe is an excellent > foundation for that. We will be using it increasingly in the openEHR > specification space, and I think others will find it useful as well. > > - thomas > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rikard Lövström Address: Sjölyckevägen 29, SE-511 63 Skene, Sweden Phone: +46 320 14242 Mobile: +46 70 4951534 Fax: +46 31 7459402
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