[Data-modeling] Fwd: Help wanted: consumer medical ontology

[Kirrily Robert]

Mike Shwe asked me to forward this to you.  He's looking for people  
with experience in the medicine field, to help with filing out  
consumer-oriented medical information, eg. diseases and symptoms.  If  
anyone's interested, please contact him directly.

K.

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> From: Mike Shwe <mike.shwe at metaweb.com>
> Date: June 12, 2009 4:48:17 PM PDT
> To: Kirrily Robert <kirrily at metaweb.com>
> Subject: Help wanted: consumer medical ontology
>
> Kirrily,
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> We’re looking for Freebase community members to contribute to / 
> medicine, in a consumer medical ontology— filling out the topics and  
> properties that we’ve currently got in diseases, symptoms, risk  
> factors, treatments, and medical specialties. Reconciliation with  
> other medical ontologies and coding systems will be included.
>
> In contrast to the UMLS (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/),  
> which is more targeted at medical professionals, we’re looking for  
> information geared towards consumers, in terms of a lay-person’s  
> vocabulary and level of abstraction.
>
> Community members that are interested should let us know how much  
> they think they’ll be able to contribute to the effort, e.g.,  
> disease profiles (symptoms, risk factors, treatments) for X  
> diseases, disease ontologies for some field of medicine, or some  
> other measurable piece of the consumer medical area.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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Kirrily Robert
Freebase Community Director
kirrily at metaweb.com
http://freebase.com/




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