RDF for Semantic Interoperability

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The RDF for Semantic Interoperability group (or RDF group) is a sub-group of the HL7 ITS work group and a joint collaboration with the W3C Healthcare and Life Sciences group on Clinical Observations Interoperability to facilitate the use of RDF as a common semantic foundation for healthcare information interoperability.

• Charter
• All W3C Clinical Observations Interoperability pages
• HL7 Project Summary

How to Participate

Anyone may join this group simply by participating in the work, which is conducted mainly on the public HL7 and W3C mailing lists listed below and on a weekly teleconference. You are encouraged to become an HL7 member, but not required unless you wish to take a leadership role in an HL7 group, such as becoming a co-chair. You are also encouraged to have your organization become a W3C member, but not required. See benefits of W3C membership.

Mailing lists (please cross post to both):

• HL7 ITS work group mailing list - Subscribe
• W3C HCLS mailing list - Subscribe

Weekly Teleconference

• Agenda and Logistics

Work Projects

FHIR RDF and Ontology

Champions: Claude Nanjo, Tony Mallia, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Marc Twagirumukiza, Hans Cools

FHIR RDF and Ontology work is being done both on our weekly Tuesday teleconference and on our Wednesday task force call: http://wiki.hl7.org/index.php?title=ITS_RDF_ConCall_Agenda

Deliverables and Editors

1. FHIR RDF introductory page, explaining FHIR RDF serialization (equivalent to existing FHIR XML and JSON pages).
See FHIR RDF draft on W3C github, which will be moved to the HL7 github when stable.
Editors: Tony Mallia, David Booth and Andy Stechishin

2. FHIR Ontology introductory page, explaining how the the OWL ontology generally works, how it can be used, and link to the download.
See FHIR Ontology draft on W3C github, which will be moved to the HL7 github when stable.
Editors: Tony Mallia, David Booth and Andy Stechishin

3. Downloadable FHIR ontology (generated by the FHIR spec build process). This would be a single file (fhir.ttl) that bundles the whole FHIR ontology. It will be generated by the build process (which is written in java).
Editors: (TBD - Michael van der Zel?)

4. Modify the supported reference implementations to consume/produce RDF, just as for XML and JSON. The reference implementations are (partially) generated by the build process, so this involves modifying the build process.
Editors: Michael van der Zel with the authors of the existing reference implementations?

5. Modify the FHIR spec build process, so when it produces JSON versions of the examples and tests roundtripping, it also produces RDF versions and tests roundtripping for RDF.
Editors: Michael van der Zel

6. ShEx implementation of FHIR XML<->RDF round tripping, for use as a validator and as a utility for translating between FHIR serializations. ISSUE: Will this be generated by the build process?
Editors: Eric Prud'hommeaux

7. Test suite to validate FHIR XML<->RDF round tripping. This test suite would be in addition to the examples in the FHIR spec.
Editors: Eric Prud'hommeaux (to be confirmed)

Background

• FHIR Ontology Requirements
• FHIR Examples For Driving FHIR Ontology Development
• Reviews of four FHIR ontology approaches:
  • FHIR ontology from Cecil Lynch

  Review of Cecil Lynch's FHIR ontology

  • FHIR ontology slides from Claude Nanjo

  Review of Claude Nanjo's FHIR ontology

  • FHIR ontology slides from Eric Prud'hommeaux

  Review of Eric & Josh's FHIR ontology

  FHIR as RDF wiki page (Josh Mandel and Eric Prud'hommeaux)

  Mapping C-CDA to FHIR RDF using ShEx (EricP)

  Example of ShEx GenR from SWA4LS tutorial

  ShEx Primer from the W3C RDF Validation Workshop

  • FHIR ontology slides from Tony Mallia

  Review of Tony's FHIR ontology

• FHIR RDF Mapping - Potential Strategies
• FHIR RDF github page
• RIM Ontology (ORIM) Overview

High-level concept mapping to RDF (AR typeCodes, etc.)

Champions: Tony Mallia, Rob Hausam

• Wiki page for term info work
• High Level Mapping Project
• Discussion

Comparison of FHIR to RDF element mappings [Side by side documentation of approaches]

Approach for Code Systems, Concepts and Value Sets [Terminology approach]

Turtle Code samples [FHIR Ontology] [FHIR SNOMED CT Bridge Ontology] [Fragment of OWL SNOMED CT]

Next Steps

• @@ TODO @@

Computable Semantic Links from FHIR to the RIM

• HL7 Project Scope Statement (PSS) for computable semantic links from FHIR to RIM

ICD-11 and SNOMED

Champions: Tony Mallia, Daniel Karlsson, Hans Cools

• ACTION: Tony to find out more details about how iCat handles ICD-11 ont and report back [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/18-hcls-minutes.html#action01]
• Discussion

Next Steps

• @@ TODO @@

Use Cases

Champions: Guoqian Jiang, others? COI Use cases on W3C wiki

• ACTION: Guoqian to figure out whether he can share URI conventions for ICD-11 [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/25-hcls-minutes.html#action07]
• Discussion

Goals of use cases:

• Drive and unify diverse efforts, e.g., FHIR ontology

Kinds of use cases desired:

• Simple enough for use in slide presentations
• Realistic enough to be convincing

Use case ideas:

• Migration of CCDA to FHIR (EricP)
• Utility on FHIR RDF that would motivate mapping of FHIR XML to FHIR RDF (EricP)

Next Steps

• EricP will present C-CDA example on Dec 23.
• Waiting for Guoqian for broader discussion of use cases.

PhUSE-FDA project (formerly CDISC2RDF)

Champions: Kerstin_Forsberg, Ingeborg, Tim Williams, (and Charlie Mead?)

• ACTION: Kerstin and Ingeborg to prepare a status and future state ideas for PhUSE-FDA work [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/18-hcls-minutes.html#action05]
• Discussion

Next Steps

• DBooth scheduled @@@@ to discuss PhUSE-FDA project on Jan 6 teleconference.

C-CDA RDF representations

Champions: Eric Prud'hommeaux, Joshua Phillips

• ACTION: Eric to establish/make a wiki page for C-CDA RDF representations work [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/18-hcls-minutes.html#action06]
• ACTION: Eric and Joshua to report on C-CDA RDF representations work plan [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2014/11/18-hcls-minutes.html#action07] -- PENDING? (On Dec 16 call I thought Eric said this was done pending review, but I cannot seem to find it.)
• Discussion

Next Steps

• EricP will present C-CDA example on Dec 23.
• @@ TODO @@

Standard URI Representations

• File:URI.pdf - Outline of URI approach presented to HL7 ~2012

Common model for data element management and value set binding

Group Discussion on February 17, 2015

• Scope of the project
  • ISO 11179 - Metadata Registry Standard
  • CIMI - Clinical Information Modeling
  • CTS2 Value Sets Management
  • Data Validation and Transformation task force
    • OWL reasoning
    • ShEX
• Use Cases
  • CDISC
  • CIMI
  • PhEMA - EHR-Driven Phenotype Algorithm Authoring and Execution
    • NQF Quality Data Model (QDM)
    • HL7 FHIR Model Element
• Related Links
  • EU project SALUS uses ISO11179 - SemamticMDR http://www.srdc.com.tr/projects/salus/blog/?p=181
  • Enterprise Vocabulary Services: http://evs.nci.nih.gov/
  • An earlier project between AstraZeneca and IBM to build a ISO11179 based "Clinical Reference Library" http://www.slideshare.net/kerfors/designing-and-launching-the-clinical-reference-library

Group Discussion on February 10, 2015

• http://www.w3.org/2015/Talks/0203-11179-egp/
• Guoqian Jaing and Eric Prud'hommeaux also discussed work at Mayo on a common model for data element management and value set binding, leveraging ISO 11179
• Eric also asked who else would be interested in a data Validation and Transformation task force, and three people indicated interest (Ingeborg, Alejandra, Kerstin_Forsberg).
• http://www.w3.org/2015/02/10-hcls-minutes.html

Initial Proposal

• Proposed by Guoqian Jiang