Re: Wait a sec...What about the HL7 RIM An Universal Exchange Language

2010-12-17 Thread conor dowling
Peter - as an FYI, the system at this end point ( http://vista.caregraf.org/rambler/2 ) is running a "flavor" of SPARQL (more here: http://www.caregraf.org/semanticvista ) that returns triples from VistA and RPMS (both of which are built around the MUMPS based FileMan). The idea was to treat these

1st CFP: IJCAI-11 Workshop on Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data (LHD-11)

2010-12-17 Thread Michael Chan
Apologies for cross-posting -- Call for papers for LHD-11 workshop at IJCAI-11, July 2011, Barcelona: Discovering Meaning On the Go in Large & Heterogeneous Data http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/lhd-11/

RE: Wait a sec...What about the HL7 RIM An Universal Exchange Language

2010-12-17 Thread Peter . Hendler
I would love to see some of this in RDF triples. Personally I've had experience with RIM and relational DBs but not much at all in healthcare with triples. My real concern, is that people will go off and re model healthcare from scratch without taking the RIM into consideration. If someone has

RE: Wait a sec...What about the HL7 RIM An Universal Exchange Language

2010-12-17 Thread Michael Miller
hi peter, "You don't gain anything by decomposing it and recomposing it into RDF." the scenarios where i have seen this work is where the data itself isn't touched, the application makes the transformation to RDF in memory then applies semantic tools. so if i want to see if there are patient

RE: Wait a sec...What about the HL7 RIM An Universal Exchange Language

2010-12-17 Thread Michael Miller
hi dirk, "So, OWL, certainly OWL Full is perfectly capable of capturing any chunk of instance data." yes i agree with this but what i was pointing out is that when one is writing certain types of applications that are dealing with the relationship between entities at a higher level such as in

Re: Wait a sec...What about the HL7 RIM An Universal Exchange Language

2010-12-17 Thread dan russler
Good discussion on this thread...And timely...since more advanced business process orchestrations for web services and other internet technologies are penetrating the market. This gives an opportunity for newer implementation technologies like OWL and RDF to enhance the execution of business pr