I'm not exactly sure what "more usable" actually means. However, (for example), the FHIR initiative will have all RIM mappings of resource definitions represented in OWL. This will enable design-time consistency checking and run-time surfacing of SPARQL end points for each resource. In the end, that will make the content of the RIM both more usable from a developer's perspective and more available from a consumer's perspective.
Does that help at all? charlie ________________________________________ From: Sivaram Arabandi, MD [sivaram.araba...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 3:19 PM To: Michael Miller Cc: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]; David Booth; public-semweb-lifesci Subject: Re: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal Exchange Language of Healthcare Good to see this change. Will this make RIM more usable? --Sivaram On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Michael Miller wrote: > hi charlie, > > that's great, thanks > > michael > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] [mailto:mea...@mail.nih.gov] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:01 AM >> To: Michael Miller >> Cc: David Booth; public-semweb-lifesci >> Subject: RE: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal >> Exchange Language of Healthcare >> >> Hi Michael -- >> >> Yes...and to make sure of that fact, Lloyd McKenzie, the author of the > MIF, >> was the person who wrote the transforms. It was quite an effort which > he is >> just finishing the documentation. >> >> charlie >> ________________________________________ >> From: Michael Miller [michael.mil...@systemsbiology.org] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 10:52 AM >> To: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] >> Cc: David Booth; public-semweb-lifesci >> Subject: RE: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the Universal >> Exchange Language of Healthcare >> >> hi charlie, >> >> and is OWL able to capture everything about the MIF so no information is >> lost? (i would be surprised if it didn't) >> >> michael >> >> Michael Miller >> Software Engineer >> Institute for Systems Biology >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C] [mailto:mea...@mail.nih.gov] >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:08 PM >>> To: Renato Iannella; Tom Morris; public-semweb-lifesci >>> Cc: David Booth; RebholzSchuhmann; Joanne Luciano; Michel Dumontier; >>> Conor Dowling; Rafael Richards >>> Subject: RE: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the > Universal >>> Exchange Language of Healthcare >>> >>> HL7 has just completed its first version of the entire MIF -- RIM + > data >> types + >>> vocabulary -- in OWL and is beginning to move to the use of SW as both > a >>> core design and run-time (RDF) artifact, the first instance of which >> will be >>> manifest in the FHIR initiative. Other activities on the radar are >>> representation of all existing RIM-derived artifacts -- e.g. RMIMs and >> CDA >>> templates -- in OWL. There is definitely movement. >>> >>> charlie >>> ________________________________________ >>> From: Renato Iannella [r...@semanticidentity.com] >>> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:48 PM >>> To: Tom Morris; public-semweb-lifesci >>> Cc: David Booth; RebholzSchuhmann; Joanne Luciano; Michel Dumontier; >>> Conor Dowling; Rafael Richards >>> Subject: Re: Opening Walled Gardens: RDF / Linked Data as the > Universal >>> Exchange Language of Healthcare >>> >>> On 16 Jan 2013, at 02:24, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I think the argument would be greatly strengthened by proof points > to >>>> support the claims. They don't need to be long and elaborate. >>> >>> The best real-world example would be the BBC's Olympic Games system >> that >>> used RDF [1]. >>> >>> I think the Response paper is ok (given the intended audience) - and > any >>> examples could get complex that actually showed the inferencing >>> advantages of RDF/OWL.... >>> >>> The recommendation for "The HIT Policy Committee should seriously >>> consider adopting RDF as a uniform, universal exchange language for >>> healthcare..." would be probably be worthwhile going to HL7 as well;-) >>> >>> >>> Cheers... >>> Renato Iannella >>> Semantic Identity >>> http://semanticidentity.com >>> Mobile: +61 4 1313 2206 >>> >>> [1] >>> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/04/sports_dynamic_semanti >>> c.html >
