RE: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL?

2012-10-02 Thread Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]
; linmd.si...@mcrf.mfldclin.edu; Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]; mscottmarsh...@gmail.com; public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org; ratnesh.sa...@deri.org Subject: RE: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL? hi peter, interesting question and discussion. i definitely agree with david's take on the que

RE: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL?

2012-10-02 Thread Michael Miller
fesci@w3.org; ratnesh.sa...@deri.org *Subject:* Re: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL? It's because clinicians will balk at the URIs. The DSL would have the same logic exaclty but all resource names and URIs would have to be replaced with obvious business names. Clinicians compla

RE: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL?

2012-10-02 Thread Mead, Charlie (NIH/NCI) [C]
A visual representation of the underlying RIM/MIF ontology -- and probably an equivalent SNOMED ontology -- could be helpful, however not as a "special" language, but rather as a more friendly view of SPARQL constructs. So, I would think that a formal RIMQL would be a dead end unless it was a pr

Re: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL?

2012-10-02 Thread David Booth
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 19:37 +0200, Jerven Bolleman wrote: > Is SPARQL too difficult to teach to clinicians? My opinion: - Yes. Clinicians should have a GUI with interactive faceted browser / query builder. ANY query language would be too difficult to teach clinicians who are not IT specialist

Re: An HL7 RIM navigation language based on SPARQL?

2012-10-02 Thread Jerven Bolleman
Hi All, Is SPARQL to difficult to teach to clinicians? I personally think its not. What is difficult to explain is the data model (especially a HL7 compatible one.) Explaining a simple select once they understand triples is easy. I love_my work = simple sentence = subject predicate object < htt