Decision Status: Completed
We expect that informaticists and terminologists will need to look up items and search the Canadian Ontology.
We expect that programmers will want to digest the entire ontology for processing.
We would like to follow Ontario's example and include Parts and their names
We want to show the history of changes in the Ontology
It would be nice to have a 'delta' file for updating someone's existing implemenation
Ontology will be in Four files:
(1) Human Readable (XLSX, each are a worksheet)
o Combined Descriptors and Parts (similar to ON)
o pCLOCD format (additional columns to match, the ‘nomenclature’ sheet)
Machine Processable (each are tab delimited files)
(2) LOINC Descriptors. (Not the parts)
(3) LOINC Parts (LNC_PartLinkPrimary) (Parts and Identifier, not the display name)
(4) The provincial descriptors file
Also add the history information to the file.
NS: 5
MK:5
ML: 5
DL: 5
WZ: 5
S A: 3
Ontology will be in four files:
(1) Human Readable (XLSX, each are a worksheet)
o Combined Descriptors and Parts (similar to ON)
o pCLOCD format (additional columns to match, the ‘nomenclature’ sheet)
Machine Processable (each are tab delimited files)
(2) LOINC Descriptors. (Not the parts)
(3) LOINC Parts (LNC_PartLinkPrimary) (Parts and Identifier, not the display name)
(4) The provincial descriptors file
Also add the history information to the file.