[Data-modeling] Medicine domain will not cover veterinary medicine or phytopathology

[Ed Laurent]

For the veterinary medicine domain it may be helpful to consider how
*Blackwell's
5-minute Veterinary Consult* is organized:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0683082574/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

My wife was a vet tech for 15 years and we have good friends who are
veterinarians. They all consider this to be a very useful book.

-Ed


On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Faye Li <faye at metaweb.com> wrote:

> Hi Jessica,
>
> Yes, I think it makes sense to create a separate Veterinary Medicine
> domain, at the same level as the current Medicine domain. That should
> help cut down on confusion.
>
> It might be a while before the new domain becomes available... I'd like
> to take a look at the Medicine domain and its current types/properties
> with our data community and work out some additions/changes. I'm hoping
> that lessons learned there and the same design patterns may apply to the
> Veterinary Medicine domain. As a first-year veterinary student, I'm sure
> you already know more about veterinary science than the rest of us. If
> you have any ideas or suggestions, please share with the community! :)
>
> -- Faye
>
>
> Jessica Perry Hekman wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 06:55:08PM -0700, Faye Li wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Is there any objection for designating the current Medicine domain as
> >> the domain for *human* medical and health data, and thus will not
> >> include medical/health data on animals and plants?
> >>
> >
> > It sounds like you'd like there to be a separate Veterinary Medicine
> > domain. You didn't specify anything about that, and I'm curious what
> > your plan is. Would it be a domain on the same level as Medicine?
> > Or a subdomain of it?
> >
> > As a first year veterinary student, I definitely agree that they should
> > be separate.
> >
> > Jessica
> >
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