Ian,
You can get SNOMED-CT
(Clinical terms) via the UMLS, by applying for a license(free for research, not
sure about commercial) to the UMLS metathesaurus. SNOMED-CT is distributed by
UMLS.
Go to: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_main.html
The pointer to the UMLS is on
the first part of that visible page.
There are several military
knowledge hierarchies available on-line, but they are dispersed and I don’t
know of any oriented toward medicine. The ‘symbolology’
standard MS2525b can be obtained at:
www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents/papers/MILSTD_2525B-Common_WFX_Symbology-30Jan99.pdf.gz
This has some classifications
of military equipment. There are several versions, including OWL, of the
NATO messaging standard JC3IEDM (google “jc3iedm ontology”).
Not sure if any of that would be useful to you.
Pat
Patrick Cassidy
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Subject: [ontolog-forum] SNOMED & Military Stuff
Hi All,
As part of my search for standard
ontologies and reference data that I can…er…”borrow”,
SNOMED has come up as a candidate. The only “open” SNOMED stuff I
can get my grubby mitts on is the data exchange file format.
I’m led to believe there is also a
standard set of reference data (i.e. terms and relationships) to support
SNOMED, but I don’t seem to be able to get hold of this. I can lots of
references to SNOMED and OWL on the web, but they all seem to be in private
hands. Can anyone point me at an open source for up-to-date SNOMED data ?
Does anyone know if the SNOMED reference
data open source – i.e. can I steal it with impunity ?
Secondly, if anyone knows a good open
source for military classifications (the sort of stuff you find on Janes, for
example), I’d be really grateful for any pointers. Doesn’t have to
be OWL or RDF or anything like that. The format can be anything really.
…those keen reasoners amongst you
have probably twigged we’re working on a military medical project.
Cheers
--
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