TY - JOUR
T1 - Terminology access methods leveraging LDAP resources
AU - Solbrig, Harold R.
AU - Chute, Christopher G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by a grant from the US National Library of Medicine: LM07319.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Health terminologies have become more complex, more massive, and more ubiquitous in the modern healthcare enterprise. Present technology makes the use of these terminologies by humans, unaided by machines, virtually impossible. However, system and message interoperability can be severely compromised if the software services deploying terminology content and interfaces are themselves non-standard. We review some characteristics for good terminology services and introduce an open-source, robust, widely deployed and widely available software resource to underpin terminology service implementations. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, is compared with alternative technologies. We describe a reference implementation of terminology services built around the HL7 Common Terminology Services using LDAP methods. We propose that LDAP is well suited as a common platform for federated, synchronized, and algorithmically distributed terminology content from multiple sources.
AB - Health terminologies have become more complex, more massive, and more ubiquitous in the modern healthcare enterprise. Present technology makes the use of these terminologies by humans, unaided by machines, virtually impossible. However, system and message interoperability can be severely compromised if the software services deploying terminology content and interfaces are themselves non-standard. We review some characteristics for good terminology services and introduce an open-source, robust, widely deployed and widely available software resource to underpin terminology service implementations. The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP, is compared with alternative technologies. We describe a reference implementation of terminology services built around the HL7 Common Terminology Services using LDAP methods. We propose that LDAP is well suited as a common platform for federated, synchronized, and algorithmically distributed terminology content from multiple sources.
KW - Terminology services
KW - information directories
KW - vocabulary
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-545
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-949-3-545
M3 - Article
C2 - 15360872
AN - SCOPUS:84887070224
SN - 0926-9630
VL - 107
SP - 545
EP - 549
JO - Studies in health technology and informatics
JF - Studies in health technology and informatics
ER -