Isabel Rom?n Mart?nez wrote: >Sorry for my intrusion and my english. >I think all of you are agree in some aspects. >But I think that high level ontology languages as owl have enought potential >to represent archetypes and you have tools to write in this language or >parse owl files and the devolopment of new tools is easy thanks to apis as >jena or protege. So why reinventing the wheel with another language? >you can save steps writing directly in owl and you can benefit of semantic >web techniques (for example). >In http://trajano.us.es/~isabel/EHR/ I have publish the RM in owl language, >now I?m working with Archetype models. >Thakns to all and sorry again. >Isabel Rom?n > > > Hi Isabel,
we have been looking at OWL for some time actually, and are working with people at the University of Manchester and also Mayo Clinic to determine if OWL can cover the semantics of archetypes or not. So far we know that OWL does not have the required data types, and it seems likely that there will be other differences. However, we intend to continue the work on this, and develop an ADL -> OWL/RDF serialiser (in fact a rough XML serialiser for OWL was already done recently). However, at this stage, it does not look as though it will be possible to save an ADL archetype as OWL without losing information, even if we solve the data types problem. For one thing, how do you save archetype invariants (a subset of OCL) as OWL statements? This work will continue, and we will know more soon. - thomas - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org
