My notes from today's call with the HL7 ITS work group:
- We discussed creating a sub-group on "RDF for Semantic
Interoperability". There were 13 people on the call. I briefly
reviewed the purpose of the activity and the history of this effort to
create either an HL7 work group or a subgroup of an existing HL7 work
group. I used these slides:
http://dbooth.org/2014/hl7/rdf-for-interop.pdf
- Everyone seemed in agreement on the idea of starting this work as a
sub-group of the HL7 ITS work group, for reasons described in the above
slides.
- A motion was unanimously passed to create a scope-of-work statement
for the sub-group. (This seemed to be the appropriate way to formalize
the creation of the sub-group and its purpose.) I (David Booth) took an
action to modify the existing draft charter to say "sub-group" instead
of "work group" and circulate it (to the ITS group, the W3C HCLS group
and anyone else who had specifically indicated an interest).
- A doodle poll will be sent out by me (David) to help figure out the
best day/time for a weekly sub-group teleconference. The sub-group will
also provide updates on the regular weekly ITS call. Poll:
http://doodle.com/gpxycd9h2q7t5i4w
- I (David) briefly listed a few potential agenda topics for our first
sub-group meeting:
- We will meet again next week on the regular 2pm (Eastern US) Tuesday
ITS teleconference, to agree on the scope-of-work statement and the
sub-group teleconference day/time.
If anyone has corrections are additions to the above notes, please
reply-all.
Thanks!
David Booth
On 10/08/2014 02:00 PM, David Booth wrote:
TELECONFERENCE:
Subject: Initiating HL7 work on "RDF for Semantic Interoperability"
2:00 PM (US Eastern time) Tuesday 21-Oct-2014
Phone Number: +1 770-657-9270
Participant Passcode: 0432811
Web meeting: https://join.me/paulknapp (click on knock to join)
Duration: 30 minutes
Slides and charter: http://dbooth.org/2014/hl7/
BACKGROUND:
At the invitation of the HL7 ITS work group
http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/xml/overview.cfm
we have scheduled a teleconference (above) to discuss the start of work
at HL7 on "RDF for Semantic Interoperability". The HL7 AID work group
http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/java/overview.cfm
is invited to join this call, as are members of the W3C Healthcare and
Life Sciences group and anyone else who is interested in this work.
When the idea of doing this work at HL7 was first proposed several
months ago by Stan Huff, the thought was to create a new HL7 work group
for it, and a charter was drafted and circulated. However, in
discussions that Claude Nanjo and I had with others at the Chicago HL7
meetings a couple of weeks ago, there was a suggestion that it may be
more effective to start this work as a sub-group of an existing HL7 work
group -- in particular the ITS work group -- rather than starting a new
work group right away. (Peter Hendler also later suggested that this
work could also fit under the HL7 AID work group.) The motivation for
putting this under an existing HL7 work group is that this would allow
easier assimilation into HL7 processes, facilitate better initial
coordination and networking within HL7, and reduce the risk of this work
being misconstrued as competing with other existing HL7 efforts. Claude
and I both found that reasoning fairly compelling, so we arranged with
HL7 ITS co-chair Paul Knapp to schedule a time during one of the
regularly scheduled ITS calls, for a joint discussion with members of
the AID work group and the W3C community.
The purpose of this discussion:
- briefly review the intent of the "RDF for Semantic Interoperability"
work;
- seek consensus on the forum for starting this work; and
- set agenda for next teleconference.
Please join if you can. If anyone is interested in this work, but
cannot join this call, please let me know so that I can still keep you
informed.
Thanks!
David Booth
