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support forming a URI from Coding values
Currently an instance of Coding
looks like this:
collection_site: # type = BodySite
site: # type = CodeableConcept
coding: # type = Coding
- code: C12468
label: Lung
system: http://ncithesaurus.nci.nih.gov
tag:
- harmonized
- code: Lung
label: Lung
system: http://crdc.nci.nih.gov/gdc
tag:
- original
While the system
value is a URI, this doesn't imply that it can be used as a URI namespace to be prepended to the code
, if one wants to derive a URI for the coding value to use in RDF-based tools. In FHIR examples I've seen, this URI is not intended to be a namespace, just an identifier for a system. It would be nice if CRDC-H (or even as a feature of LinkML) we had a defined way to include a URI version of the coding value, or generate a URI from components in the coding instance. If we are going to use the CodeableConcept model, I don't think we need to precisely mirror FHIR. We could support better interoperability with the linked data world.