Content published on openclinical.net

The kind of knowledge content that we will publish is currently limited, but is expected to increase in response to community demand and technical developments in medical knowledge representation and management. Requirements for any decision to publish material is that (a) the content is presented in a format that is either a de facto standard or (b) is used and shared by a significant portion of the OpenClinical community, and (c) there is a capability for or prospect of achieving interoperability between models and others already published on OpenClinical. Among the formats we will consider for adoption by OpenClinical.net are

• Data models, terminology and ontology content (RDF, OWL)
• Rule sets and logic databases (Arden Syntax, GELLO, Prolog, OWL)
• Logic based decision models (PROforma, ASBRU, GLIF …)
• Statistical decision models (XBN)
• Task, process and workflow models (PROforma, ASBRU, GLIF)

We do not currently expect to publish conventional (text) material without formal content, but anticipate that as the OpenClinical.net publishing model develops, the documentation of machine readable content is likely to include significant amounts of material intended for human guidance, and may converge on formats resembling traditional research reports, commentaries and reviews, software documentation etc.