Dear all, Thanks for John for getting me on the list. Hi to Christine! As I don't know who else are on the line, let me first briefly introduce myself. I'm an assistent professor at the dept of Medical Informatics in the U of Amsterdam. My research is on (bio)medical ontologies and formal representation thereof. I'm co-chairing AMIA's Formal (bio)medical Knowledge Representation Working Group (with Stefan Schulz). I'm member of the Quality Assurance Committee of IHTSDO, who're fostering SNOMED CT. If you want to research SNOMED CT, I suggest you get a license for the UMLS. This will also provide you with the possibility of downloading the release distro of SNOMED CT. You will however be required to submit an annual report (can be short), as you are in a non-IHTSDO-member country. As said, per the next release (due tomorrow) SNOMED CT will also be released in stated form, together with a script to convert that into OWL. This can then be classified using a reasoner, e.g., CEL, FaCT or the seamingly upcoming CB reasoner (to mention a few). There'll be quite some water under the bridge, but I regard this as a major opportunity to put SNOMED CT and reasoning with SNOMED CT to the test. I hope to join tomorrow's call, but it may conflict with private matters. Best regards, Ronald
############################################################### Ronald Cornet, PhD email: r.cor...@amc.uva.nl dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188 Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840 P.O.Box 22700 www: http://kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/ 1100 DE Amsterdam The Netherlands 'The truth is out there' ________________________________ From: public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-semweb-lifesci-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christine Golbreich Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 22:05 To: John Madden Cc: w3c semweb HCLS; Khaled Khelif Subject: Re: SNOMED CT Hi John Could you please be more explicit ? OWL 2 EL profile provides class constructors that are sufficient to express SNOMED CT see http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-owl2-profiles-20081202/#OWL_2_EL and references of * 5.7 Use Case #7 - The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine [HCLS] <http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/New_Features_and_Rationale#Use_Case_.237_-_The_Systematized_Nomenclature_of_Medicine_.5BHCLS.5D> Christine 2009/1/29 John Madden <john.mad...@me.com> You can follow Helen's link from an earlier post. Also in a forthcoming release of SNOMED CT a script will be included to convert SNOMED in a mechanical way into OWL syntax. Unfortunately, a mechanical translation of SNOMED CT into OWL may not help you much, depending on your application. SNOMED CT is not designed with the same logical expressivity of OWL nor with the same formal semantics, and therefore the result of a translation is not apt to be useful without additional modeling or remodeling. I generally suggest people who want to use OWL for a particular application create their own OWL ontology and map to SNOMED CT for what it may add. Also, I see you are in France, which is not a member of the IHTSDO (http://www.ihtsdo.org <http://www.ihtsdo.org/> ). If you wish to use SNOMED CT, you must look into obtaining a license. John On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:16 AM, Khaled Khelif wrote: Hi all, I am looking for the SNOMED CT in OWL. Any one have idea of a version in OWL or in any other convertible format. Thanks in advance Best regards -- Khaled KHELIF Phd. - Expert engineer on the Sealife Project Edelweiss Research Team - INRIA Sophia Antipolis Address: 2004, route des lucioles, 06902, Sophia Antipolis, FRANCE Office: BS09 - Phone : +33 4 97 15 53 16 - Fax : +33 4 92 38 77 83 Web: http://www-sop.inria.fr/acacia/personnel/Khaled.Khelif/ ******************************************************************************************* Albert Einstein said: We are all very ignorant, but not all ignorant of the same things ;-) ******************************************************************************************* -- Christine
