new discussion page for ontologies and openEHR.

Technical (archive)
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Dear all,

we have added a new page for the purpose of discussing ontologies and
openEHR, in particular aimed at improving openEHR in the future so that
it really does live up to the goal of creating truly computable
information - information can safely be used in automatic processing,
inferencing and reasoning. The page is here:
http://www.openehr.org/FAQs/t_ontology_FAQ.htm . It is set up as a
starting point, not in any way finished - just enough to get discussion
going.

Discussion is encouraged on this mailing list. Content will eventually
be moved to the openEHR wiki when it comes online.

happy reading,

- thomas beale

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Tom, this is an excellent start to a reference point for people wanting
to understand the rationale for openEHR. I really look forward to seeing
an openEHR wiki established so that the knowledge and discussion about
this and every aspect of openEHR is captured in a way that's organised
by topic rather than just by chronology and email-thread.

I found the 'Some history' section particularly useful in the way it
summarises both the theoretical and practical approaches to creating
health information ontologies. The only very minor suggestion I'd have
is to make it easier for readers to browse these references with direct
links to the cited papers or to a google scholar search for the paper.
eg. Tange et al
(http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=10557203496653946620)

Lisa

Thomas Beale wrote:

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Lisa Thurston wrote:

Tom, this is an excellent start to a reference point for people wanting
to understand the rationale for openEHR. I really look forward to seeing
an openEHR wiki established so that the knowledge and discussion about
this and every aspect of openEHR is captured in a way that's organised
by topic rather than just by chronology and email-thread.

I found the 'Some history' section particularly useful in the way it
summarises both the theoretical and practical approaches to creating
health information ontologies. The only very minor suggestion I'd have
is to make it easier for readers to browse these references with direct
links to the cited papers or to a google scholar search for the paper.
eg. Tange et al
(http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cluster=10557203496653946620)

Lisa

thanks Lisa, I have made a few improvements on this score...

- thomas