Indeed, the patient IS the person, just that if they stop being a patient, they don't stop being that person. We have been looking very closely at this in the provenance working group, since state changes figure very prominently into the provenance of a thing. Ownership is an example of that. We developed an instance-level abstraction mechanism, which we call specialization [1], to handle this using specializationOf and alternateOf. specializationOf is a way to assert a relationship between a resource that represents more constrained aspects of another resource. I spoke about its application to biomedicine at CSHALS this year [2], but please use the definition from [1] for guidance since it underwent refinement recently.
[1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/prov-dm.html#component4 [2] http://prezi.com/vbhpb4pp8bhu/the-biospecimen-repository-as-library-how-hela-is-like-moby-dick/ Jim On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Solbrig, Harold R. <[email protected] > wrote: > Although, if the patient dies, the person goes away as well, no? ;-)**** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *R. Cornet > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:26 PM > *To:* Michel Dumontier; Freimuth, Robert, Ph.D. > > *Cc:* Jim McCusker; Aaron Brown; Dan Brickley; Renato Iannella; Lin MD, > Simon; Matthias Samwald; [email protected] > *Subject:* RE: RDF Schema / LODD mapping -- Re: New proposal: health & > medical extensions to schema.org**** > > ** ** > > I would say that if you follow ontoclean, being a patient is a non-rigid > property of a person.**** > > **** > > Ronald**** > > **** > > ################################################################**** > > Ronald Cornet, PhD email: [email protected]**** > > dept. of Medical Informatics phone: +31 (0)20 566 5188**** > > Academic Medical Center, Room J1B-115 fax: +31 (0)20 691 9840**** > > P.O.Box 22700 www: kik.amc.uva.nl/home/rcornet/**** > > 1100 DE Amsterdam**** > > The Netherlands**** > > **** > > *From:* Michel Dumontier [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 23, 2012 5:02 PM > *To:* Freimuth, Robert, Ph.D. > *Cc:* Jim McCusker; Aaron Brown; Dan Brickley; Renato Iannella; Lin MD, > Simon; Matthias Samwald; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: RDF Schema / LODD mapping -- Re: New proposal: health & > medical extensions to schema.org**** > > **** > > If you follow ontoclean [1], then all you need to know is that if not all > people are patients, then patients is a subtype of people.**** > > **** > > m.**** > > **** > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OntoClean **** > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Freimuth, Robert, Ph.D. < > [email protected]> wrote:**** > > > For instance, Physicians are not the same thing as Patients, but a > Patient can also be a Physician.**** > > **** > > ...and a physician can be a patient, both of which are roles that entities > can play. IMO, this illustrates the importance of defining roles and > entities separately (rather than through inheritance from a common parent). > **** > > **** > > Bob**** > > **** > ------------------------------ > > *From:* [email protected] on behalf of Jim > McCusker > *Sent:* Wed 5/23/2012 9:40 AM > *To:* Aaron Brown > *Cc:* Dan Brickley; Renato Iannella; Lin MD, Simon; Matthias Samwald; > [email protected]**** > > > *Subject:* Re: RDF Schema / LODD mapping -- Re: New proposal: health & > medical extensions to schema.org**** > > **** > > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Aaron Brown <[email protected]> wrote:** > ** > > Ok. But I still don't see why this needs to be specified explicitly. > Otherwise, wouldn't it also be necessary to specify that a MedicalEntity is > disjoint from a Movie, a SocialEvent, a DryCleaningOrLaundry, etc? It seems > to get out of hand pretty quickly. For that matter, if someone wanted to > extend the proposed schema by defining a Physician type that inherits from > both Person and MedicalEntity, I think would be OK.**** > > **** > > RDF and other semantic web standards allow for instances to have multiple > unrelated types. This is part of the Open World Assumption, and is a good > thing, since it allows us to discover classifications for things later on. > In order to create the same sort of single inheritance that one sees in, > for instance, Java, simply make each sibling under a given class disjoint > with all its other siblings. I would be reluctant to do that blindly, > though, as it can often result in modeling errors. For instance, Physicians > are not the same thing as Patients, but a Patient can also be a Physician. > **** > > **** > > Jim**** > > -- > Jim McCusker > Programmer Analyst > Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics > Yale School of Medicine > [email protected] | (203) 785-6330 > http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu > > PhD Student > Tetherless World Constellation > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > [email protected] > http://tw.rpi.edu**** > > > > **** > > **** > > -- **** > > Michel Dumontier**** > > Associate Professor of Bioinformatics, Carleton University**** > > Chair, W3C Semantic Web for Health Care and the Life Sciences Interest > Group**** > > http://dumontierlab.com**** > > **** > > De informatie opgenomen in dit bericht kan vertrouwelijk zijn en is > uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onterecht > ontvangt, wordt u verzocht de inhoud niet te gebruiken en de afzender > direct te informeren door het bericht te retourneren. 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