Peter,
Thanks for the info. I missed the session on OpenVistA, and haven't
had time to catch up.
Even for systems that have the virtues of OpenVistA, I think that any
documents from the community as a whole need to avoid seeming to endorse
any particular product, unless it was tested by a group project.
Individuals can feel free to recommend products they like, and community
documents can cite phrases like "product X or the equivalent". The
first paragraph of the specific proposal is a single run-on sentence
mentioning only one product, which is prefaced by "in particular", which
gave (me) the impression of a strong endorsement, not much mitigated by
the "such tools as" qualifier. Suggestion: break it into two sentences
and take out the "in particular", and it would to my taste sound more
objective. Proselytizing is fine for individuals, but needs to be done
cautiously by groups, after discussion of whether an endorsement is
warranted. I think this is true regardless of the actual virtues of the
product. (01)
Pat (02)
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Pat, (05)
While I agree that we should always use something like " ....
such as OpenVistA" (rather than locking us totally into any one
particular product, I have to point out that the Ontolog have had
multiple interactions with the WorldVistA people. (06)
I list some of those that come to mind quickly: (07)
o Chris Richardson and David Whitten (both founders of
WorldVistA) are Ontolog members. (08)
o they are a part of the team and contributed to our NHIN-RFI
response (09)
O we had a full session at Ontolog featuring these two gentlemen
and the OpenVistA product and approach less than 2 months ago -
ref:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ConferenceCall_2005_06_16 (010)
o they have both been active, and David has been in quite a few
of our weekly calls and speaker/discussion sessions (011)
They are "open" and is probably the most established open tool in
the particular space we are talking about. To say the least, they
are a prime candidate for potential future Ontolog projects where
such a tool is needed. (012)
Cheers. =ppy
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Cassidy,Patrick J. wrote Mon, 8 Aug 2005 11:15:26 -0400:
> Why is OpenVista selected as a preferred tool? I don't recall that
the
> Ontolog forum engaged in any significant discussion of that tool -- I
> have no familiarity with it. Should we be promoting one tool over
> others as an Ontolog position at this point, especially without
careful
> evaluation by the group?
>
> Pat
>
>
> Patrick Cassidy
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