Hello Dr. Ho,
It is good that there is some consensus on this list, because I was becoming
afraid for it. :) Clearly, the OIO Library "editors" and the Slashdot
"meta-moderators" are filling a similar role. I am sure that role is the
reason the Tim suggested a model like Slashdot to used for a OpenOntology.
This would clearly be a place for the OIO Library, not to exclude other
sources of peer-review. I believe in this capacity alone, many different
forums would work with equal facility, but I agree that OIO Library would be
one appropriate place.
I really can't comment on OpenGalen since I haven't read much on it yet, but
multiple ontologies are unfortunately going to exist at least in the short
term and good cross ontological query and update tools would truly be
useful. I really don't care what form the data is in or even where it is at
as long as I can have a reasonable tool to assist the clinicians in the most
common or repetitive tasks.
Todd Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Andrew po-jung Ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
IMHO, the OIO Library (metadata repository) provides a more appropriate
support model than Slashdot (news for nerds). In fact, I proposed the same
on May 15, 2001:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04676.
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>At the end of the day, we will have an open source Galen Terminology Server
(which is unfortunately not available from >OpenGalen) with
cross-translating capabilities to GEHR, Odyssee, OpenEMed, OIO, FreePM,
FreeMed, TkFp, etc!
