Philippe AMELINE wrote:
> Hi, > > Since I missed the starting point of this thread, I may un-properly > answer ; however I can say from the work we are doing that there is a > great difference between a system based on an ontology and a system > based on free text annotated by a coding system. > > The fist one allows structured description (knowledge management > field) while the other remains in the field of classification (data > management : text index keeping and epidemiology). And I have to agree 100%. But I doubt if Gerard really disagrees with this. - thomas - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

