[hit-forum] Followup to April 27th Convergence Conference - Semantic Tec

[Niemann.Brand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

 

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Harding" <cjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <udef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 1:10 PM
Subject: Document [UDEF in IEEE Distributed Systems Online ] created

This message is generated by The Open Group's web service because you are a subscriber to the udef list

A document has just been created by Chris Harding.
Web:       Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)
Title:     UDEF in IEEE Distributed Systems Online
URL: http://www.opengroup.org/projects/udef/protected/doc.tpl?gdid=10946

Further details:-
The following is an excerpt from an article in IEEE Distributed Systems Online by Greg Goth, highlighting the potential of the Universal Data Element Framework in the healthcare industry.

The next step in expanding the interoperable and open source mindset among healthcare developers might not come from
patient-facing applications such as VistA. Instead, some healthcare IT experts see it in projects such as the GPI, the new Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework project, and the Open Group's Universal Data Element Framework. Chris Harding, who heads the Open Group's UDEF working group on semantic interoperability, describes UDEF as a Dewey decimal-like classification system for data semantics. He thinks it might allow even healthcare organizations with disparate top-level architectures to share metadata: "Because they have a common indexing method," he says, "they'll know what each other is talking about."

UDEF is based on the ISO 11179 standard for metadata registries. Harding says it's also intended to integrate Semantic Web technology, therefore serving as a sort of bridge between the two. Among the organizations interested in testing the UDEF for its potential in improving interoperability is the US National Cancer Institute.

To unsubscribe from this and/or other mailing lists administered by The Open Group please visit
http://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/unsubscribe.tpl
or send a request to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (please include the text of this message).

_________________________________________________________________
Message Archives: http://colab.cim3.net/forum/hit-forum/
Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Config: http://colab.cim3.net/mailman/listinfo/hit-forum/
Shared Files: http://colab.cim3.net/file/work/hit/
Community Wiki: http://colab.cim3.net/wiki/
Community Portal: http://colab.cim3.net/
To Post: mailto:hit-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx    (01)