Health-RI Semantic Interoperability Initiative — Changed: The initiative has been formally paused. Existing documentation, released artifacts, persistent identifiers, and repository materials remain available for reference and citation, but no further development, curation, community review, or release activity is currently planned until a future phase is confirmed.
2026-03-27
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.