On 4 Oct 2009, at 20:31, John Madden wrote:
Depends on what you want to do, exactly. I think interlinking some prevalent medical vocabularies to dbpedia entries is a wonderful project!
I was just looking at the statistics we have on UK hospital episodes[1] which use ICD-10 to indicate the primary diagnosis related to the episode. I'm intending to model the statistics using SKOVO[2].
I was hoping to locate existing Linked Data URIs for the diagnoses that I could reuse rather than inventing our own (especially since it's an international standard). Having extra information associated with each of the diagnoses would be a bonus, since all I have from the spreadsheets are the code and a preferred term (which include some spelling mistakes from what I can see and certainly not all the information that's available online).
Unfortunately from what I can tell the NCI Metathesaurus doesn't seem to define URIs that are possible to construct based on the ICD-10 codes. Or it does and I haven't been able to find them. I'd be grateful for any advice.
Would you be interested in talking to the HCLS Terminology group (I chair it) about it on an upcoming Thursday morning call? I predict you'd get a lot of interest and support -- even help, if you like.
If the above still sounds interesting, and provided the timing works, sure.
Cheers, Jeni [1]: http://www.hesonline.nhs.uk/Ease/servlet/ContentServer?siteID=1937&categoryID=203 [2]: http://sw.joanneum.at/scovo/schema.html -- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com
