There are ontological inconsistencies [1] with HL7 RIM that warrant a
closer look. Though, admittedly, the criticism is more about HL7's
Actions than its Roles.
[1] http://ontology.buffalo.edu/HL7/doublestandards.pdf
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am just popping into this thread. Why don't we look at RIM (HL7
Reference Information Model)?
They distinguish 'entities' (a person is an entity) and roles: 'patient',
'doctor', etc are examples of roles. That gives you an easy way of using a
standard description of a person, common to other communities, reusing
what exists, and still you can add properties to the rol 'patient' to have
whatever you need, specific in Health Care and Life Sciences.
you can download the RIM model at
http://www.hl7.org/library/data-model/RIM/modelpage_mem.htm
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Re: A question on the vocabulary for 'persons'
I had been using FOAF as a basis and then adding relations as needed.
-Alan
On Sep 12, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
Dear all,
we would need some feedback...
There were some brainstorming on what vocabularies to use for the
simple
notion of 'Person' in various settings. There is old W3C note for
an RDF
version of vCard[1], but another version was created by Norm Walsh a
while ago[2]. And, of course, there is FOAF.
The issue came up because some people would like us to update the old
[1] note but, if we want to do that seriously, it is not necessarily
that easy (the vCard spec itself is not soooo o.k.).
Hence the question as a feedback: what does the HCLS community use for
something like 'Person'?
Thanks for the feedback
Ivan
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf
[2] http://norman.walsh.name/2005/12/12/vcard
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