Standardizing Data from the Dead

Shamsi Daneshvari Berry; Heather J H Edgar

doi:10.3233/SHTI190467

Standardizing Data from the Dead

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21:264:1427-1428. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190467.

Authors

Shamsi Daneshvari Berry¹, Heather J H Edgar^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Health Informatics and Information Management, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.
² Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
³ Office of the Medical Investigator, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.

PMID: 31438164
DOI: 10.3233/SHTI190467

Abstract

A database of full-body CT scans and associated lifestyle and health data from decedents who underwent an autopsy at the Office of the Medical Investigator (OMI) is under construction. The dataset has 68 metadata fields containing data from the OMI's database and interviews with next of kin. Some metadata fields could be mapped to existing standards, but the majority of fields required some modifications to current standards or the creation of new standards.

Keywords: Vocabulary; controlled; forensic anthropology; imaging; three-dimensional.

MeSH terms

Databases, Factual
Metadata*