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Subject: Competing Anatomy Specifications, Ontologies, XML Vocabulariesand Data Dictionaries
Title: Competing Anatomy Specifications, Ontologies, XML
Voca
Hi Folks,
Since I wrote to Dr. Cornelius Rosse more than a week ago now,
April 19, I think it will be acceptable that I simply include our
interest in his work with the Digital Anatomist Foundational Model
within the University of Washington School of Medicine in this
message. My inquiry into the Protege-Readable Anatomical Ontology is
part of my exploration of accepted human anatomy specifications,
standards, ontologies, data dictionaries, and references commonly used
or required in medicine, public health and safety and various levels
of government from local to state or province to national and/or
international. I am now attempting to cover all of my bases when I ask
for all relevant references and inputs for the work of the OASIS
HumanMarkup Technical Committee, Human Physical Characteristics
Description Markup Language (HPCDML) Subcommittee.
The Charter and Mission Statement for this subcommittee is
currently in the process of a vote to approve it by the Technical
Committee, so I am attaching it in two versions, Word and rtf with the
proviso that it is unofficial as of 28 April 2003. The subcommittee is
also in the process of formal inauguration within the new OASIS
structural system. However, I can assure you that I expect that it
will be approved and duly adopted and that the subcommittee will begin
its formal work soon.
My concern is that there appear to be competing ontologies and
standardized markup vocabularies or language standard efforts working
on this vital and necessary endeavor. So, since my aim is to harmonize
and ensure interoperability of the existing accepted standards, I am
seeking aid in my work to identify such standards and ongoing efforts
aimed at constructing such standards.
In this particular context, I am seeking guidance on obtaining
all relevant to ANATML (of which I was apprised more than a year ago,
but which had appeared to be moribund until recently, and is closely
related to a for-profit corporation which may make it less attractive
or perhaps unavailable for use in an open, public, royalty-free
standard)
http://www.physiome.org.nz/sites/physiome/anatml/pages/index.html
and The Digital Anatomist Foundational Model
http://sig.biostr.washington.edu/projects/fm/AboutFM.html
and their value in relation to each other and the overall field
described in the charter/mission document attached.
Since the Digital Anatomist is unavailable to the public, I can't
compare it to ANATML. ANATML is dated 2000, and consists of a DTD,
which is usable, but its relation to a for-profit corporation, despite
being developed The University of Auckland, NZ, makes it uncertain for
our use.
These appear to be the two candidates for the more purely
anatomical interests of our subcommittee, and I want to emphasize that
anatomy is just one of a set of issues with which HPCDML will be
concerned.
I will be more than pleased to send to this set of addrressees
the paper on the body of standards and specifications the HPCDML
identifies as required for coverage within its charter when we decide
that we have researched this area sufficiently for a first draft of a
requirements document for the subcommittee.
Thanks very much, and I do hope this is not an intrusion.
Regards,
Rex
Rex Brooks
President, Stabourne Communications Design
Executive Director, Humanmarkup.org, Inc.
Vice Chair, Secretary, OASIS HumanMarkup Technical Committee
Chair OASIS Human Physical Characteristics Description Markup Language
Subcommittee
Member Web Services for Interactive Applications Technical
Committee
Chair Web Services for Remote Portal Markup Subcommittee
Member OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee
HM.HPCDML.Charter-Mission.doc
HM.HPCDML.Charter-Mission.rtf
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