HCLS/OntologyTaskForce/OntologyScoping

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Ontology Scoping

  1. The various knowledge artifacts that could be represented using ontology-like artifacts need to be enumerated. Candidate representations of these artifacts could be
    • terminologies such as Snomed and Gene Ontology,
    • various Genomic artifacts such as Genes, Variants, Proteins
    • various clinical artifacts such as Clinical Documentation templates and Clinical Decision Support Rules.
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  1. Ontologies can also be used to encode processes and process models related to
    • biological pathways
    • clinical care protocols
    • clinical guidelines
    • web services annotation models
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  1. Other artifacts that need to be designed and represented in an ontology could be
    • namespaces
    • mappings of ontological elements to underlying database schemas and other data structures
    • mappings across various identifier and value sets
    • provenance information about a knowledge artifact such as “who”, “what”. “when”, etc.
    • versioning and history information
    • information about content dependencies
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