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Subject: CAM, understanding, wording and semantic dispersion
- From: "David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>
- To: cam@lists.oasis-open.org
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:45:38 -0700
I attended presentations here at NIH yesterday on the subject of
knowledge management and Dr Barend Mons from the Netherlands said
something very suscinct that encapsulates what I believe the whole CAM
and prior work on BRIM is quintessentially focused on achieving:
The challenge is to normalize the semantic dispersion between
information points and the associated processing systems.
Aligned with this is the fact that the KM community has also settled
on using the UID concept to solve the riddle of semantic
interoperability of terms, along with creating authoritative sources to
manage those reference codelists. They realized that word based
systems are not enough since synonyms, homonyms and acronyms are
too problematic:
e.g. Homonyms
PSA Prostate Specific Antigen
PSoriaticArthritis
alpha-2,8-PolySialic Acid
PolySubstanceAbuse
PicrylSulfonicAcid
Polymeric SilicicAcid
Partial Sensory Agnosia
Poultry Science Association
So while KM information alignment is mostly the domain of OWL,
ontologies and such - there is a common thread revolving around
registry use and establishing a common vocabulary.
I have updated the Kavi CAM welcome text to include this notion - my
thanks to Dr Mons - and BTW - his presentations are well worth a look -
just Google on his name - that in an of itself is an impressive instance
of leveraging a unique knowledge identifier!! ; -)
Enjoy, DW
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