At 13:33 -0800 on 29-12-1996, Tom Lincoln wrote:
> You write:
>
>
> >And simply sending messages is difficult enough.
> >How many ways are there to write dates, names, adressess, etc.
>
> >Before we can use any system, EDIFACT, Internet protocol, SGML, WE must
> >decide how to exchange such simple things in a standard way. We must
> >provide a standard context (and representation of it) we agree about.
>
> How one choses to write these things is not as important as an INDIRECT
> standard for their interpretation. We in America are going to go right
> on writing our dates MM/DD/YYYY even though everyone in Europe uses
> DD/MM/YYYY... but if one knows that, then the parse is simple. The British
> will continue to drive on the "other" side of the road, and we will
> continue to use Farenheit and feet and inches (and the Brits "stone?").
> If one knows by tagging or labeling what has been done, it doesn't take
> much artificial intelligence to calculate an equivalent.
Correct.
The solution is to 'invent' a coding system which will indicate which
system was used.
But now there is none.
> >Then we must unite about some simple medical things/concepts like:
> >diagnosis, complaint, symptom, finding, episode, treatmentplan, lab result,
> >a bed, a assistent, a doctor, etc, etc
>
> Here again, practice more or less defines a standard meta-outline, from
> which varients convenient to specific circumstances can be derived, and
> such differences can be managed, if they are derived in an interpretable
> way.
Correct.
> >And then we must find a suitable vehiculum to exchange those concepts.
> >That vehiculum must be very flexible, forgiving, adaptable, durable,
> >usable, etct, etc.
>
> The key criteria exactly, plus openly readable, and requiring minimal
> overall housekeeping
>
QED
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