Fwd: Re: Congratulations from the 2006 OASIS Symposium Committee

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Fellow CommitteeMembers (both NCOR and HumanML)

I wanted to pass along the information below about the acceptance of 
my abstract for the OASIS Symposium in May, to both committees. I 
want to advise you all that both groups will be included in the scope 
of "Semantic and Contractual Perspectives on a Healthcare Informatics 
Registry".

The overall topic of Semantic Interoperability will come into play in 
both committees. This is especially relevant because we are revising 
the Primary Base Human Markup Language specification to bring it into 
alignment and interoperability with the latest release of the CIDOC 
CRM

http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/official_release_cidoc.html

from the CIDOC organization

http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr

Briefly, the CIDOC organization is the International Council of 
Museums which started this program more than a decade ago with the 
following purpose:

The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) provides definitions and a 
formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts 
and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation.

This latest version is proposed to include an RDFS version to promote 
fmore complete Semantic Interoperability. This Conceptual Reference 
Model in essence systematizes the classification of human artifacts. 
Bringing the Primary Base Human Markup Language Specification into 
alignment with the CIDOC CRM will further increase the usability of 
HumanML. HumanML includes alignment with the Foundational Model of 
Anatomy and other Health Informatics standards, and seeks to 
systematically categorize information uniquely  related to humans in 
knowledge representation in digital information systems.

For members of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) 
Committee on Ontology for Health Informatics, I would expect that 
implication (below) of  my abstract proposal to examine the "Semantic 
and Contractual Perspectives on a Healthcare Informatics Registry" 
to be fairly obvious in its relationship to our work.

It is closely tied to my own efforts to build a set of registries in 
UDDI and ebXML for Health Informatics and for Emergency Management. 
However, for both committees, I want you to know that I will be 
forging a liaison with the Medical Banking Project by co-leading 
their Cyberwar Workgroup. This workgroup is tasked with tracking 
medical/medicare billing fraud in general. In particular we are 
concerned with billing fraud for the purpose of funding terrorism, 
especially bioterrorism linked to the biosurveillance aspect of 
epidemiological analysis.

Just to be clear, this message is a bit of an anomaly for me since 
this is almost completely informational. That is, I'm not asking for 
any specific replies. I just wanted to make you aware of this set of 
interconnections. Those strangely missing requests will probably come 
later when I start work in earnest in putting together this case 
study.

Regards,
Rex

>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:30:56 -0800
>To: "Jane Harnad" <jane.harnad@oasis-open.org>
>From: Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>
>Subject: Re: Congratulations from the 2006 OASIS Symposium Committee
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>Thanks Jane,
>
>I confirm my availability. I eagerly look forward to this 
>opportunity to further the adoption of standards to provide 
>interoperability.
>
>I look forward to coordinating with Jacques.
>
>Regards,
>Rex
>
>>Dear Rex,
>>
>>On behalf of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board, acting as the Program
>>Committee for OASIS Symposium 2006, we are pleased to notify you that your
>>proposal "Interoperability at Work: The Semantic and Contractual
>>Perspectives in a Healthcare Informatics Registry" has been accepted for the
>>OASIS Symposium on the Meaning of Interoperability in San Francisco May 9th
>>through 11th, 2006.
>>
>>Your proposal is planned to be part of the Case Study session. Your session
>>coordinator, Jacques Durand, will contact you in the next several weeks to
>>finalize the schedule and other details of your presentation.
>>
>>Please reconfirm your availability by email to Jane Harnad
>>(jane.harnad@oasis-open.org), Manager of Events for OASIS, by February 15th.
>>Otherwise we will assume you will not be able to do this presentation.
>>
>>Again, thank you for your proposal. We look forward to your presentation at
>>the OASIS Symposium.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Hal Lockhart, Jacques Durand
>>OASIS TAB Symposium Subcommittee Co-Chairs
>
>
>--
>
>Rex Brooks
>President, CEO
>Starbourne Communications Design
>GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
>Berkeley, CA 94702
>Tel: 510-849-2309


-- 
Rex Brooks
President, CEO
Starbourne Communications Design
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tel: 510-849-2309