Interesting. But kind of 1990's all over again. Metadata requirements are generalized and very well defined for electronic documentation. Dr. Benson doesn't specify any type of controlled vocabulary nor even a datatype for any item except date/time.
Dublin Core is well accepted and used throughout the emerging semantic web. It is one of the reason that, in 2009, we adopted it for them use in the Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modelling project. Our success has been based on re-use of existing tools and technologies in place of re-inventing everything. http://launchpad.net/mlhim-specs Any questions about the documents and schemas at the above link will answered at the Google Plus page link below. Regards, Tim On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Gray, Alasdair J G <a.j.g.g...@hw.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi All, > > > This is an interesting blog post about metadata requirements for clinical > documents. > > http://abiesuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/metadata-for-clinical-documents-and.html > > > I particularly like the distinction of use cases at the start which motivate > the metadata requirements that are identified. > > Alasdair > > Alasdair J G Gray > Lecturer in Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK. > Email: a.j.g.g...@hw.ac.uk > Web: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~ajg33 > ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5711-4872 > Telephone: +44 131 451 3429 > Twitter: @gray_alasdair > Arrange a Meeting: http://doodle.com/agray > > -- > > I am taking part in UCU's action short of a strike from 1st November in > support of fair pay in HE. For more info go here www.ucu.org.uk/hepay13 > > So please be patient if I take longer to answer your email. > > > > > > ________________________________ > > Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2011-2013 > Top in the UK for student experience > Fourth university in the UK and top in Scotland (National Student Survey > 2012) > > We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us > in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see > www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. > > Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number > SC000278. -- MLHIM VIP Signup: http://goo.gl/22B0U ============================================ Timothy Cook, MSc +55 21 94711995 MLHIM http://www.mlhim.org Like Us on FB: https://www.facebook.com/mlhim2 Circle us on G+: http://goo.gl/44EV5 Google Scholar: http://goo.gl/MMZ1o LinkedIn Profile:http://www.linkedin.com/in/timothywaynecook
