Health-RI Ontology Mappings — Added: Published SSSOM mapping set version 2026-03-27, adding new mappings with sex and gender terms.
2026-03-24
Enabling Semantic Traceability in Health Data: The Health-RI Semantic Interoperability Initiative — Added: Published the SWAT4HCLS 2026 presentation deck in PDF and PowerPoint Show formats as a standalone documents release. The presented paper was already available.
2026-03-23
Health-RI Ontology Mappings — Added: Published SSSOM mapping set version 2026-03-23, adding mappings with sex and gender terms from FHIR, HL7, CDISC, SNOMED CT, LOINC, and GA4GH.
2026-03-16
Calls for Community Review — Changed: Closed the Sex and Gender review window, clarified that feedback remains welcome, and noted that the package will move to the published (pub) stage soon.
2026-03-13
User Guide: HRIO Mapping Assistant — Created: Published a detailed user guide explaining the assistant's scope, evidence rules, qualifier handling, outcomes, and structured results.
2026-03-11
Health-RI Ontology — Added: Published v2.1.0 release artifacts, introducing self-identified agender and two-gender person classes and refining self-identified gender bearer constraints.
Call For Community Review — Changed: Extended the Sex and Gender external validation to 13-03-2026 and added the planned Person Birth review window.
Health-RI Ontology — Added: Published v2.0.0 release artifacts, introducing the PersonBirth birth-event taxonomy and biological provenance model, with refreshed birth and address diagrams.
2026-02-17
Calls for Community Review — Announced an open community review for the Sex and Gender domain (17 Feb–10 Mar 2026) and clarified how to contribute and be acknowledged.
Sex and Gender — Created: Published a dedicated external review page with scope, recommended review flow, and links to documentation, specification, and feedback channels.
2026-02-16
HRIO Mapping Assistant (GPT) — Added: Published a dedicated assistant to help draft HRIV meaning mappings from domain concepts to HRIO (one predicate, confidence %, and evidence snippets).
Semantic Interoperability Guide (GPT) — Added: Published a dedicated assistant to answer questions about the initiative and help users navigate its documentation, artifacts, releases, and persistent identifiers.
2026-02-15
Health-RI Ontology — Renamed: Corrected the v1.6.2 Turtle artifact name and embedded version metadata (versionIRI, versionInfo, conformsTo) to match v1.6.2.
2026-02-13
Health-RI Ontology — Fixed: Released v1.6.1, removing incorrect metadata from distribution packages without changing term semantics.
Index — Changed: Reworked the homepage to emphasize semantic traceability, the semantic-hub mapping approach, and a 10-minute quick start.
Method Overview — Changed: Expanded the method overview with clearer definitions, rationale, and references for HRIO/HRIV-based semantic traceability.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) — Changed: Added detailed guidance on HRIO/HRIV meaning mappings, including interpretation caveats (SKOS/OWL) and adoption considerations.
Mapping Strategy — Changed: Clarified CIM/PIM layering for HRIO artifacts, updating the figure caption and adding an artifact-by-layer comparison table.
The Health-RI SSSOM Mapping Set Schema — Modified: Added semantic-traceability context, expanded field guidance, and clarified that HRIV predicates are meaning-level links (not OWL equivalence/subsumption).
Mapping Governance — Modified: Strengthened curation and review guidance with warnings against false agreement, clearer evidence expectations, and notes on mapping stability versus HRIO maturity.
Ontology Validation — Modified: Updated review checklists with opt-out acknowledgement guidance and transparency notes for AI-assisted drafting of documentation text.
Ontology Rules — Modified: Clarified how SHACL constraints and derivation rules attach to HRIO artifacts, including an updated OntoUML→gUFO/OWL→SHACL workflow.
Ontology Versioning — Changed: Aligned terminology and artifact lists under HRIO, clarifying that all release artifacts share one version identifier.
Persistent IDs — Changed: Expanded guidance on citing versioned PIDs versus using “latest” PIDs for browsing, and clarified HRIO namespace identifiers.
Publications — Changed: Clarified when derived OWL/SHACL/spec artifacts are published and how “latest” PIDs behave when derived artifacts are unavailable.
Deliverables Overview — Modified: Updated the deliverables summary to explicitly describe HRIO, HRIV, the SSSOM mapping set, and the changelog.
Contribution Channels — Fixed: Refreshed contribution guidance with HRIO terminology, links to mapping governance, and normalized SSSOM issue-form links.
Calls for Community Review — Modified: Clarified the external review process for HRIO domains, including default acknowledgement with opt-out and a current “no open calls” status note.
2026-02-11
Health-RI Ontology — Added: Published v1.6.0 release artifacts (Turtle, JSON, SHACL, Visual Paradigm) and refreshed sex/gender diagrams and SKOS labels for improved display.
2026-02-04
Health-RI Ontology — Added: Published v1.5.0 release artifacts (Turtle, JSON, Visual Paradigm) and refreshed gender/sex diagrams, adding cisgender/transgender and sex-at-birth type visualizations.
2026-02-03
Health-RI Ontology — Modified: Updated to v1.4.0, adding gender expression and preferred pronoun concepts and refining administrative and legal gender recognition terminology.
2026-02-02
Health-RI Ontology — Added: Published ontology release 1.3.0, refactoring gender modeling (externally-attributed vs self-identified) and adding cisgender/transgender modality concepts, plus SocialAgent taxonomy updates and refreshed metadata.
Contribution Channels — Created: focuses the page on ongoing contribution options outside time-bound review calls, with clarified sections and button-based links to structured issue forms.
Calls for Community Review — Created: describes the external community review process for ontology domains, including participation options and how open and closed calls are listed.
2025-11-19
Ontology validation checklists — Modified: Added warnings and clarifications to ontology validation checklists, relaxing pending items and aligning terminology with OWL/gUFO exports and diagram notation.
2025-11-14
Ontology Rules and SHACL Implementation — Created: Introduced a dedicated overview of ontology constraint and derivation rules and their implementation using SHACL.
Ontology Notes Policy — Changed: Updated the notes policy with the new DRIV rule category and adjusted note colors to align with the ontology rules.
Changed: Several pages received minor updates to show their relation to the newly created ontology rules page.
The Health-RI SSSOM Mapping Set Schema — Renamed and expanded: added a comprehensive field table and browsing guidance, and aligned versioning to append-only.
Mappings — Changed: added a scope note and linked to the Mapping Set schema.
2025-11-03
News & Updates — Created: added a date-based, page-first changelog page and linked it in navigation.
SSSOM Mapping Set — Changed: improved readability; added guidance on permanent URIs, append-only versioning using replaces, and BCP 47 language-tagged strings; introduced a submission-checklist URI validator; defined allowed predicate_id values; switched examples to HTTPS; and removed the default object_source.
Mapping Strategy — Changed: Clarified caption and examples, updated broader/narrower mappings (ghc Patient to Healthcare/Veterinary), and corrected the prefix to hriv.
SSSOM Mappings Template — Changed: added basic input validation and displayed contextual information when boxes are selected.