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The official SNOMED CT OWL Toolkit. OWL conversion, classification and authoring support.
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Include Refsets in OWL file #65

Closed Marvjowa closed 11 months ago

Marvjowa commented 2 years ago

Hello!

I'm new to much of this, so I'm sorry in advance if this question has a very obvious answer.

I managed to create an OWL-file from SnomedCT, but realised afterwards that the "Simple Map Refset name"s are not included, e.g. the ones found in the SNOMED Browser under "Refsets" on the right, such as "SNOMED CT to ICD-10 extended map". Is there a way to include these in the created OWL-file?

Thank you in advance!

kaicode commented 2 years ago

Hi there! Thanks for reaching out.

The concepts/classes that represent these refsets should be in the generated OWL file but you are right that the members of these maps are not. The SNOMED RF2 distribution contains a map to the identifiers of the ICD-10 codes but no modelling / axioms for ICD-10.

Is there a standard way to represent such a map in OWL format?

Marvjowa commented 2 years ago

Hello! I'm very sorry for the late reply. The ICD-10 were just one example, the "CTV3 to SNOMED CT simple map" would be another from the link above. I'm new to OWL so I am unsure whether there is a standard way, but do I understand you correctly, that it would be possible to include the maps in the OWL file if a fitting representation could be found?

kaicode commented 2 years ago

We are open to enhancing the OWL ontology generated by this tool provided that the enhancements are useful to many and aligned with best practice. I wondered if annotations could be used to provide the URI to a concept from an alternate classification but I haven't been able to find any examples of that. The ICD-10 codes have URIs that are used in FHIR.