Kindle - yes Dr Ian McNicoll mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 office +44 (0)1536 414994 skype: ianmcnicoll email: [email protected] twitter: @ianmcnicoll
Co-Chair, openEHR Foundation [email protected] Director, freshEHR Clinical Informatics Ltd. Director, HANDIHealth CIC Hon. Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL On 7 September 2015 at 09:46, 王海生 <[email protected]> wrote: > is there a kindle version > > -- > 王海生 > 15901958021 > > > 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 >> <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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org >
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