Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare

2008-06-03 Thread Dan Corwin
is exactly counter to *the* core goal for any ontology. Hard or easy, the utility gained fully merits its costs. best regards, Dan Corwin Kashyap, Vipul wrote: Physical vrs Informational Natural vrs Artificial Real vrs Imaginary Composite vrs Characteristic Individual vrs

Re: Multi-layered Knowledge Representations for Healthcare

2008-04-25 Thread Dan Corwin
any class or instance desired. Perhaps the specific discriminants listed above could help in more precisely discussing the less-general (domain-specific) layers of your strawman, or the benefits of distinguishing them. Best regards, Dan Corwin

Re: An argument for bridging information models and ontologies at the syntactic level

2008-04-11 Thread Dan Corwin
s "Assessment" (like the ones found in the above paper); (3) build on top of that foundation, *separately* for each of SOAP's four disjoint aspects. regards, Dan Corwin Ogbuji, Chimezie wrote: Thanks for that drill down, Tom. It gives a good backdrop to call out important d

[COI] Architecture thoughts

2007-11-29 Thread Dan Corwin
ises my own ambitions for a POC, and for similar COI use cases it may support. Next steps for any POC design should be critical reviews that seek ways to improve or simplify it. Please email feedback on these or related "architecture" thoughts to the list. Thanks. best regards, Dan Corwin

Re: [COI] Project Plan Feedback

2007-11-27 Thread Dan Corwin
Vipul - Sorry I missed today's TC. Here is more feedback on the project plan, continuing the thread I began last night ... DC>> Your project plan handles "patient recruitment" only if you assume that patient records are in DCM and protocol requests come in SDTM. Neither assumption is valid, s

[COI] Project Plan Feedback

2007-11-26 Thread Dan Corwin
designs before going any further on enumerating tasks. In 6-9 months, given clear designs, any small part-time group can easily create all we need to properly demo our full use case, and *also* illustrate general-purpose COI models. It would be a shame to blow that opportunity by defining group work tasks prematurely. regards, Dan Corwin

Re: COI Functional Requirements - ways to implement them

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Corwin
Kashyap, Vipul wrote: [DC] I've been exploring designs that can implement your spreadsheet rows as a web service of "predicates" helpful to achieving this. The simplest design [1] just wraps a shell of customized JSPs that can make such mappings around any working EMR system. [VK] Yes, this c

COI Functional Requirements - ways to implement them

2007-10-29 Thread Dan Corwin
Agents" under BIONTDSEDCM Use Case Scenarios I'd like to discuss both in Tuesday's telcon, as proposals for the F2F brainstorming session about next steps. Questions and feedback coming first by email from the group would be welcome. best regards, Dan Corwin Kashyap, Vipul wro

Re: Use-case Documents __ RE: [BIONT-DSE] Clinical Observations Interoperability Telcon September 25th, Tuesday 11:00am - 12:00pm US EDT

2007-09-26 Thread Dan Corwin
are better known.  Use Case specs are nice, but debating Requirements is often a more productive way to expose them. Cheers, Dan Corwin Rachel Richesson wrote: I apologize for the delay. Attached are the latest use-case write-ups based upon last week’s discussion. I appreciate the

Re: GUIDs

2006-05-12 Thread Dan Corwin
xample, resolution of a whole LSID could be an excellent time to expand the embedded SAID metadata into normal RDF, exposing it to a reasoner. Feedback welcome, Dan Corwin