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Collaboration Opens Current Procedure Terminology Content for Developers

A new collaboration between Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) and the American Medical Association (AMA) will offer technology developers using HL7 data interoperability standards, and guides increased accessibility to AMA-published medical codes and descriptors. The collaboration will work to fully integrate HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) with the AMA’s Current Procedure Terminology (CPT®) code […]

New Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group Formed

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced the formation of the OGC Agriculture Information Model Standards Working Group (AIM SWG). The AIM SWG aims to develop, publish, and maintain an Agriculture Information Model (AIM) to support information interoperability in the Agriculture Domain, emphasizing the re-use of generic OGC standards as appropriate. AIM will provide a common […]

Importance of Standardization for Legal Entity Identifier Data

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) works with data standards to ensure that the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is reliable worldwide. The GLEIF recently published an explainer summarizing the importance of standardization in ensuring that the LEI consists of quality identity data. For GLEIF, data standardization is crucial because it enables the efficient and […]

SPHN Schema Forge Web Service and SPHN Dataset2RDF Tool Released

The SPHN Semantic Interoperability Framework builds a complete ecosystem around Semantic Web technologies to make health-related data FAIR. From an Excel-based SPHN Dataset, SPHN projects need to create an RDF schema, related SHACL rules for helping data validation, SPARQL for data exploration, and, ideally, documentation to visualize the schema better. To ease the learning curve, […]

Collaboration to Develop Two-Way Maps for Human Phenotype Ontology

The Monarch Initiative signed a five-year collaboration agreement with SNOMED International to develop maps from the clinical terminology SNOMED CT to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) and to HPO from SNOMED CT. As part of the agreement, the organizations will work together to develop mapping conventions by which both maps will be created, along with use […]

A Taxonomy of Trustworthiness for Artificial Intelligence

The UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) published a paper to help organizations develop and deploy trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. The paper complements the newly released AI Risk Management Framework, a resource developed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Issued as part of the CLTC White Paper Series, the […]

FAIR Impact Open Calls to Participation in FAIR Data and Open Science Projects

FAIR Impact has launched its first of three Open Calls for Support, which aims to support research projects focused on FAIR data and open science. The open calls offer two support actions designed to enhance the FAIRness of data, semantic artifacts, and data-related services. Each defined support action will provide dedicated guidance and assistance to […]

APQC Process Classification Framework

APQC’s Process Classification Framework® (PCF) is a taxonomy of business processes that allows organizations to objectively track and compare their performance internally and externally with organizations from any industry. It also forms the basis for various projects related to business processes. APQC’s PCF is designed as a framework and global standard to be customized for […]

Employment and Social Development Canada Develops A Skills and Competencies Taxonomy

Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) has developed a Skills and Competencies Taxonomy to complement other federal, provincial, and territorial employment programs involving skills identification and utilization. The taxonomy streamlines the terminology of hundreds of occupational descriptors used in the labor market. It improves the comparability of concepts and their application throughout occupations and sectors. […]

Addressing Problematic Metadata

The Metadata Inclusivity Steering Group was formed at Northwestern Libraries (Northwestern) to address offensive language in metadata. There are a few reasons why problematic words appear in metadata. For instance, the resources can be problematic, or the records might be old and have out-of-date terms. Moreover, Northwestern is part of a shared international cataloging ecosystem. […]