In a recent blog, I described the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as an ontological reference. I explained how this type of resource can be used for the codification of distributable events in order to build up a database. In an organization, although the context surrounding the idea of a “disorder” is different;…
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The “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” produced by the American Psychiatric Association is an interesting document from a conceptual standpoint. In order to count the number of individuals with a particular disorder and to make the numbers comparable regardless of source, there has to be clear criteria guiding the ontology. This document therefore serves an important ontological purpose. By the way, given that some dictionaries don’t…
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