Hi Marco et al.,
It is also possible that a person can have multiple roles (e.g.,
researcher and teacher). Are there standard vocabularies that we can use
to describe roles, for example? There might be a temporal aspect as
well. For example, a person at one point was a postdoc but later becam
Hi All,I agree with the points Helen & Chimezie are making here. HL7 RIM cannot be used "as is" as a well-founded ontology.However, as we are finding with many such knowledge sources that aren't quite appropriate for use as ontologies themselves, I think RIM's focus on roles provides an excellent
Hi, Chimezie
Although it is questionable whether
HL7 RIM can be converted to a "good" healthcare domain ontology,
in this discussion of a "person" description (ontology), I agree
with Dirk on looking at RIM's description of Person and its attributes
for healthcare domain. You will find some over
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Ivan,
> There were some brainstorming on what vocabularies to use for
> the simple notion of 'Person' in various settings. There is
> old W3C note for an RDF version of vCard[1], but another
> version was created by Norm Walsh a while ago[2]. And, of
> course, there is FOAF.
>
> The issue ca
There are ontological inconsistencies [1] with HL7 RIM that warrant a
closer look. Though, admittedly, the criticism is more about HL7's
Actions than its Roles.
[1] http://ontology.buffalo.edu/HL7/doublestandards.pdf
Chimezie Ogbuji
Lead Systems Analyst
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
C
I am just popping into this thread.
Why don't we look at RIM (HL7 Reference Information Model)?
They distinguish 'entities' (a person
is an entity) and roles: 'patient', 'doctor', etc are examples of roles.
That gives you an easy way of using a standard description of a person,
common to other com
kei cheung wrote:
Based on my limited experience, a person in the life science and
healthcare context can be considered as a subject or patient (which
can be a subclass of person). Of course, there are other roles a
person can play (e.g., doctors, researchers, and authors). For
genetic studies
AJ,
thanks for this answer. Would it be possible to elaborate a little bit
on what problems you have hit wen trying to use vCard (or FOAF)? It
would certainly help us in understanding the issues...
Thanks
Ivan
AJ Chen wrote:
> In developing SPE ontology, I have tried to re-use FOAF and vCard, b
