is there a kindle version
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At 2015-09-07 16:17:51, "Rikard Lövström" <[email protected]> wrote:
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
Amazon.co.uk
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 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
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