Thanks Thomas! Will study all Of it and get back! Beatriz Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 6, 2015, at 10:26 PM, Thomas Beale <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-clinical mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org
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