Before I go creating them, does anyone know of a Linked Data source
for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)[1] and/or the
OPCS-4 classification scheme for interventions [2]?
Does it need to be 'Linked Data' (i.e. resolvable URIs) or would any RDF/OWL
do?
Cardillo et al. have a paper were they claim to have created an OWL version
of ICD-10:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/b225335809376016/
but I am not sure if the URIs would be linked data compliant; probably not.
I remember having come across other RDF versions of ICD-9, but I guess they
would not be linked data compliant either.
Besides, many Wikipedia entries have links to ICD-10 codes, which are also
represented in DBpedia (although in a slightly messy way). Example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
http://dbpedia.org/page/Fatal_familial_insomnia
If it turns out that concepts from ICD-10 are entirely contained in DBpedia,
then maybe using DBpedia URIs directly could be an option.
Cheers,
Matthias Samwald
DERI Galway, Ireland
http://deri.ie/
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research, Austria
http://kli.ac.at/
