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RDF provides a standard, open technology on which to build links. The Pharma Work Group has a virtually complete set of “text links” to RIM semantics that they have included in their FHIR specifications, and the ITS RDF group has the technical knowledge and interest in working to build tools that could be integrated into the FHIR specification package to enable specification authors to specify links that were, in fact, computable using standard RDF/SPARQL technologies. The role of the ARB is to oversee the project and it’s deliverables since they are, in essence, essential to developing and maintaining a coherent, computably semantically interoperable architecture that integrates FHIR and the RIM. | RDF provides a standard, open technology on which to build links. The Pharma Work Group has a virtually complete set of “text links” to RIM semantics that they have included in their FHIR specifications, and the ITS RDF group has the technical knowledge and interest in working to build tools that could be integrated into the FHIR specification package to enable specification authors to specify links that were, in fact, computable using standard RDF/SPARQL technologies. The role of the ARB is to oversee the project and it’s deliverables since they are, in essence, essential to developing and maintaining a coherent, computably semantically interoperable architecture that integrates FHIR and the RIM. | ||
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Revision as of 18:08, 17 July 2015
Development of computable semantic links from FHIR specs to RIM
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Scope
The scope of this project is well-defined: to define, design, develop, and demonstrate how tools based on RDF/semantic technologies can be used as part of the FHIR specification process to ensure that all FHIR specifications (and FHIR profiles) that fall within the jurisdiction of HL7 balloted artifacts can ensure the development of computable semantic links between FHIR artifacts and RIM semantic artifacts.
Need
The importance of utilizing the rich semantics of the RIM in the context of FHIR specifications and profiles is (or should be) a core construct of “HL7 architecture.” At present, the “documentation” of FHIR/RIM links is, at best, done in free text as part of a given FHIR specification (and many times not done at all). Failure to provide computable links will, in the end, lead to specifications whose interoperability is based on knowledgeable human coherence at specification time and which does not take advantage of the considerable efforts already expended to define formal RIM structures.
RDF usage
RDF provides a standard, open technology on which to build links. The Pharma Work Group has a virtually complete set of “text links” to RIM semantics that they have included in their FHIR specifications, and the ITS RDF group has the technical knowledge and interest in working to build tools that could be integrated into the FHIR specification package to enable specification authors to specify links that were, in fact, computable using standard RDF/SPARQL technologies. The role of the ARB is to oversee the project and it’s deliverables since they are, in essence, essential to developing and maintaining a coherent, computably semantically interoperable architecture that integrates FHIR and the RIM.
