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Onboading Process by Alan

Tom: What the semantic web is and is not?
... Technology, content and people issues
... How you might represent information models/terminology models in the Semantic Web
... Classic divide between Information and Terminology Models
... Semantic Web as a means for harmonizing the divide
... Domain models

Alan: KR work, BioPax - interoperability format for biology
... Confusion between data types fields as opposed to the domain
... name of the protein...
... vs the semantics of proteins
... definitions of things in the real world
... Always taking about thing in the real world
... Information fields about the things in the database in the real world
... Tools of the semantic web help us express these things
... Shared and communicated with others
... Important to get good definitions
... Externalized definitions
... Ontology for Biomedical Investigations: Principles of "good construction"

Stan: Terminologies are representing global truth
... Implementation -- identifying the subsets of what is required
... Things put in a form that are constrained

Bron: There is a confusion between terminologies and ontologies
... CDISC is working on the CDASH initiative

http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLS/OntologyTaskForce/BIONTDSEDCM

<scribe> ACTION: Examples of filling spreadsheet [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2007/10/23-hcls-minutes.html#action01]

Stan: Any terminology is 85% complete
... Incompleteness in Snomed
... Space between operational systems and terminological systems
... LOINC 1-1 map
... LOINC 1-1 map
... Redundant concept for INR in LOINC
... Came out with a version that deprecated the concpet
... Using the deprecated conceps
... The system stopped work