Re: [ontologies] Your opinion

[David Forslund]

At 09:56 AM 5/29/2001 -0400, John S. Gage wrote:

Thus, I believe that we depend in an absolute way on clearly defined
ontologies if we want to achieve *safe* computer asisted decision support in
medicine, and we depend on it to in order to allow meaningful globalized
data mining.

Isn't RDF the tool to accomplish this?

I don't think RDF will accomplish this, but is the appropriate mechanism to express the ontologies that are developed.

I further believe that commercial ontologies (royalty ontologies) will never
be accepted globally - thus being worthless for the "greater picture". I
have great respect for OpenGalen,

URL?

http://www.opengalen.org

It appears to use its own nomenclature for expressing its ontologies (GRAIL?)

Dave

John

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