Modeling and validating HL7 FHIR profiles using semantic web Shape Expressions (ShEx).

ABSTRACT:

Background

HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) is an emerging open standard for the exchange of electronic healthcare information. FHIR resources are defined in a specialized modeling language. FHIR instances can currently be represented in either XML or JSON. The FHIR and Semantic Web communities are developing a third FHIR instance representation format in Resource Description Framework (RDF). Shape Expressions (ShEx), a formal RDF data constraint language, is a candidate for describing and validating the FHIR RDF representation.

Objective

Create a FHIR to ShEx model transformation and assess its ability to describe and validate FHIR RDF data.

Methods

We created the methods and tools that generate the ShEx schemas modeling the FHIR to RDF specifica

SUBMITTER: Solbrig HR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5502481 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature