Horst Herb wrote:
> 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, and I realize that I have to have a closer
> look at Odysee for that matter.
I agree Horst.
But, will a large enough community of physicians support an open
ontology with peer-reviewed data?
I can think of the technology that would allow it, something
along the lines of meta-moderators on Slashdot.
If you've not used Slashdot enough to know what this is, they
have a faq where you can read about it. (
http://www.slashdot.org/moderation.shtml )
Even then, how do you support the core maintenance? Maybe a
coalition of insurance carriers could be convinced of how
beneficial this would be to them as well.
The Slashdot code is available at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/slashcode/ But that much Perl
makes my head hurt. <s>
I know Squishdot emulates Slashdot. Ignacio, does Squishdot have
the moderation functionality?
These comments are not to start another project but to put in
place a mechanism that would provide ongoing maintenance of
Odysee or OpenGalen or ...
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