FW: [cam] CAM, understanding, wording and semantic dispersion

FYI

 

From: David RR Webber
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Subject: [cam] CAM,
understanding, wording and semantic dispersion

 

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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