Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Lee Feigenbaum
On 9/11/2010 2:04 AM, Michel_Dumontier wrote: It's not a restriction on the predicates - it's a restriction on instances of a certain class - like that of blood pressure measurements. Checking consistency would tell you whether your data conforms to the specification described by the ontology do

RE: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Michel_Dumontier
> > It's not a restriction on the predicates - it's a restriction on > instances of a certain class - like that of blood pressure > measurements. Checking consistency would tell you whether your data > conforms to the specification described by the ontology document. > > Right, but tells whom, and

RE: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Eric Prud'hommeaux
* Michel_Dumontier [2010-09-10 18:42-0400] > > -Original Message- > > From: Eric Prud'hommeaux [mailto:eric...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Eric > > Prud'hommeaux > > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 6:41 PM > > To: Michel_Dumontier > > Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > > Subj

NCBO Webinar Series - Sean Falconer, Sep. 15

2010-09-10 Thread Trish Whetzel
The next NCBO Webinar will be presented by Dr. Sean Falconer from Stanford University on "Collaborative Patterns in Large-Scale Ontology Development Projects" at 10:00am PDT, Wednesday, September 15. Below is information on how to join the online meeting via WebEx and accompanying teleconference.

RE: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Michel_Dumontier
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Prud'hommeaux [mailto:eric...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Eric > Prud'hommeaux > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 6:41 PM > To: Michel_Dumontier > Cc: Chimezie Ogbuji; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org > Subject: RE: [TMO] patient record normalization > > * Michel_

RE: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Eric Prud'hommeaux
* Michel_Dumontier [2010-09-10 16:30-0400] > > > But then anyone merging two TMO documents with different units has the > > normalization burden. If we pick a unit and annotate the predicates, > > then the folks who would have to do the work of merging with non-TMO > > documents (who would have t

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Mark
As usual, I agree with Scott (this is becoming a habit! LOL! Scott, we should really try to work together more closely!) It speaks to a conversation that I had with my review committee this morning about how The Web was built by simply being completely open. Anyone could (can) publish an

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread M. Scott Marshall
Hi Eric, The business of standardizing units reminds me of: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2007/08jan_metricmoon/ followed by: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/462264.stm For me, the story of losing an orbiter because of an accidental clash between imperial and met

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread David Booth
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 16:08 -0400, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote: > If we pick a unit and annotate the predicates, > then the folks who would have to do the work of merging with non-TMO > documents (who would have to introduce some rules/canonicalization > pipeline anyways) have the OWL hooks to automat

RE: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Michel_Dumontier
> But then anyone merging two TMO documents with different units has the > normalization burden. If we pick a unit and annotate the predicates, > then the folks who would have to do the work of merging with non-TMO > documents (who would have to introduce some rules/canonicalization > pipeline any

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Eric Prud'hommeaux
* Chimezie Ogbuji [2010-09-10 13:45-0400] > Hello. Very interesting thread =). My $0.02. You say in your original > email: > > >>> This greatly simplifies our life as we are otherwise likely to have a > >>> variety of e.g. BP data in the database: 120/80 mmHg, 12/8 DmHg, > >>> 16000/10667 Pa,

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Chimezie Ogbuji
Hello. Very interesting thread =). My $0.02. You say in your original email: >>> This greatly simplifies our life as we are otherwise likely to have a >>> variety of e.g. BP data in the database: 120/80 mmHg, 12/8 DmHg, >>> 16000/10667 Pa, >>> 16/11 MPa, 13 (PAM) I'm not so sure if the idea th

CFP: DAMP 2011

2010-09-10 Thread Manuel Carro
[We apologize in advance for the reception of multiple copies] DAMP 2011 Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming Austin, Texas (colocated with POPL 2011) January 23, 2011

CFP: DAMP 2011

2010-09-10 Thread Manuel Carro
[We apologize in advance for the reception of multiple copies] DAMP 2011 Declarative Aspects of Multicore Programming Austin, Texas (colocated with POPL 2011) January 23, 2011

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Alan Ruttenberg
We adopted the two component approach rather than the relation approach. -Alan On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kerstin Forsberg > wrote: The issue of units for measurements was also discussed (but not solved?) in the IAO (Information Artifact Ontology) group earlier this year, see for example:

RE: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Eric Prud'hommeaux
* Michel_Dumontier [2010-09-09 14:52-0400] > Hi, > I think the model where we separate the unit from the value is preferred > (as per CPR) because it is highly flexible. You are right however that people > could then refer to any unit, although an ontology could specify the unit > involved (u

Re: HCLS Terminology call this coming MONDAY, 12:00 noon U.S. Eastern time

2010-09-10 Thread Daniel L Rubin
Hi, I'll be at the caBIG meeting and probably tied up so won't be able to call in.. Daniel - Original Message - From: "John Madden" edu> To: "w3c semweb HCLS" semweb-life...@w3.org> Cc: "Christel Daniel" , "francois.mac...@sante.gouv.fr" , "MD MD Booker MD" HealthTronics.com>, "Mary Ke

HCLS Terminology call this coming MONDAY, 12:00 noon U.S. Eastern time

2010-09-10 Thread John Madden
This is a reminder that the next HCLS Terminology conference call is scheduled for this coming MONDAY. Conference Details . Time of Call: 1600h UTC (1200h U.S. Eastern Daylight Time, 1700h London, 1800h CET, 0900h U.S. Pacific Standard Time) . Dial-In #: +1.617.761.6200 (Cambridge

Re: [TMO] patient record normalization

2010-09-10 Thread Kerstin Forsberg
The issue of units for measurements was also discussed (but not solved?) in the IAO (Information Artifact Ontology) group earlier this year, see for example: http://groups.google.com/group/information-ontology/browse_thread/thread/59724cd906d31841