FYI (01)
From: Ed Barkmeyer <edbark@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Subject: A draft ISO standard for Terminology Services
To: healthcare@xxxxxxx, OMG Ontology PSIG <ontology@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Business Modeling & Integration DTF <bmi@xxxxxxx>, Gerald Radack
<radack@xxxxxxxxxx>, "David M. Price" <david.price@xxxxxxxxxxxx> (02)
All, (03)
There is a terminology services standard currently out for ballot in
ISO, and OMG has been invited to comment. This activity arose in ISO
TC184/SC4, "exchange of product data", and came from the product
catalogue folk, who need to manage and translate between multiple
dictionaries for product properties and product classifications. (04)
The standard is designated ISO 29002 "Exchange of characteristic
data", and it is a collection of Parts. Part 6 is the terminology
model, taken from ISO 704 (as is the model in SBVR). It uses
datatypes defined in Part 4 and "identifiers" defined in Part 5. The
Basic Terminology Services are defined in Part 20. (The rest is
uninteresting to OMG.) (05)
The current Committee Draft (analogous to an early revised submission)
is on the OMG server at:
http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ISO-stds/2009-04-01 (06)
That file is a Zip file of a hypercard stack. When you unzip it, "use
folder names", so that the links will work. Then point your browser
to the base folder/directory and it should find the index.htm file.
(And there is a separate index.htm for each Part as well.) (07)
The Parts are small. The Introduction shows how they fit together.
Each of Parts 4, 5 and 6 involves a technical section comprising one
UML class diagram and its documentation. Part 20 -- the terminology
services -- is more complex and involves several UML diagrams. (08)
This draft is out for ballot until 14 May, and the ISO committee is
meeting in Vancouver, BC, the following week to deal with the
comments.
We can come up with a means of forwarding OMG comments if we need to.
David Price <david.price@xxxxxxxxxxxx> is the official liaison; Gerry
Radack <radack@xxxxxxxxxx> is the ISO 29002 lead. I attach the
standard ISO comments form. (09)
Mostly, I bring this document to your attention as an effort to get
some coalescence among the models of ISO 704 and mutual awareness of
the work. I have brought the HL7 specification to the attention of
the ISO TC184 gang as well. (010)
Caveat: This is an ISO document, distributed for the purpose of
supporting the standardization processes of ISO and OMG. Any other
use of this specification is a violation of the agreement between OMG
and ISO. (011)
-Ed (012)
P.S. It is easy to view this specification as irrelevant to the
concerns of healthcare providers. So hospitals will use one system
for medical terminology and another for buying medical equipment, and
the two brokers will never talk to each other. But fear not, the
medical equipment manufacturers will make their own terminology
services standard in ISA and the IEC. We are all organized to build
silos. (013)
--
Edward J. Barkmeyer Email: edbark@xxxxxxxx
National Institute of Standards & Technology
Manufacturing Systems Integration Division
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8263 Tel: +1 301-975-3528
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8263 FAX: +1 301-975-4694 (014)
"The opinions expressed above do not reflect consensus of NIST,
and have not been reviewed by any Government authority." (015)
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