[DDI-users] [DDI-SRG] Recommended use of TopcClas in DDI-C 2.1

[Wendy Thomas]

created TC-220 to capture issues and related materials. Jay, I have added
your comment and reference.

Wendy

On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:50 AM Jay Greenfield <nightcleaner at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Wendy:
>
> Longer term you may want to review CONCEPT in the OMOP CDM to consider
> what other attributes may be valuable. CONCEPT in the OMOP CDM was
> constructed over time based on many use cases.
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> https://ohdsi.github.io/CommonDataModel/cdm60.html#CONCEPT
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> This CONCEPT includes a pointer to a VOCABULARY, a DOMAIN, a value in a
> CLASSIFICATION, a concept start date and a concept end date. We use the
> concept start date and end date, for example, to check the data quality of
> COVID-19 variant concepts from a standard phylogenetic tree.
>
> Be well and enjoy today,
>
> Jay
>
> Jay Greenfield, MA, PhD
> Data Documentation Initiative
> CODATA
> PEACH (Platform for Evaluation and Analysis of COVID-19 Harmonised data)
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> (202) 271-3179
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> On May 17, 2021, at 10:10 AM, Wendy Thomas <wlt at umn.edu> wrote:
>
> Additional URI attribute for <keyword><topcClas> and <concept>
> https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/browse/DDICODE-64
>
> ISO country list type
> https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/browse/DDICODE-73
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> Additional locations for personal identification attribute additions
> https://ddi-alliance.atlassian.net/browse/DDICODE-75
>
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 1:33 AM Janet McDougall <
> janet.mcdougall at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wendy and Julian
>>
>> We are resurrecting a discussion we had in September 2019 about usage of
>> the TopcClas DDI attribute.   The Dataverse community is currently working
>> towards implementation of controlled vocab servers for lookup from certain
>> DDI fields.
>>
>> Have there been any further discussions about how we can persist with the
>> historic use of the attribute vocabURI, when now with LD vocab servers
>> we also want to provide a PURL to point to the term/concept?
>>
>> As Julian pointed out at the time "how would other systems know when the
>> vocabURI attribute points to the vocab and when it points to the vocab
>> term?"
>>
>> I thought it would be more efficient to ask if there has been any more
>> consideration of this issue.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Janet
>>
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>> *I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands on which I work, the
>> Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, and pay my respects to elders past, present,
>> and emerging.*
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>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Wendy Thomas <wlt at umn.edu>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 4 September 2019 3:16 AM
>> *To:* Data Documentation Initiative Users Group <
>> ddi-users at icpsr.umich.edu>
>> *Cc:* Janet McDougall <janet.mcdougall at anu.edu.au>; Steven McEachern <
>> steven.mceachern at anu.edu.au>; DDI Structural Reform Working Group. <
>> ddi-srg at icpsr.umich.edu>; Marina McGale <Marina.McGale at anu.edu.au>
>> *Subject:* Re: [DDI-users] Recommended use of TopcClas in DDI-C 2.1
>>
>> Good point, particularly the fact of DataVerse use. I think adding a
>> specific URI in addition to the vocabURI would be the most appropriate.
>> Thanks Julian!
>>
>> Wendy
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 11:17 AM Gautier, Julian <
>> juliangautier at g.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Would a concern here be that repositories are already using that
>> attribute to point to the vocab URL itself, and using it for the PURL of
>> the vocab term would mean that it would then be used to store two types of
>> information? I know Dataverse is using it for the vocab URL. How would
>> other systems know when the vocabURI attribute points to the vocab and when
>> it points to the vocab term?
>>
>> Would an additional, optional attribute for the vocab term URI be
>> possible?
>>
>> All best,
>> Julian
>>
>> --
>> Julian Gautier
>> Product Research Specialist, IQSS <http://www.iq.harvard.edu/>
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Wendy L. Thomas                              Phone: +1 612.624.4389
Data Access Core Director                 Fax:   +1 612.626.8375
Minnesota Population Center             Email: wlt at umn.edu
University of Minnesota
50 Willey Hall
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