[health-ont] Fwd: A draft ISO standard for Terminology Services

[Ed Dodds <ed.dodds@xxxxxxxxx>]

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul Vincent <pvincent@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Subject: RE: A draft ISO standard for Terminology Services
To: edbark@xxxxxxxx, healthcare@xxxxxxx
Cc: Business Modeling & Integration DTF <bmi@xxxxxxx>, Gerald Radack <radack@xxxxxxxxxx>, "David M. Price" <david.price@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, OMG Ontology PSIG <ontology@xxxxxxx>


Thanks Ed - I wonder how this relates to the world of Master Data
Management?

[IMHO MDM is "industry's solution" to the problem of "exchange of
product data" eg across the enterprise or B2B supply chain. ]


Paul Vincent
TIBCO Software supporting standards development
-- CEP-relevant stds: OMG UML class/state, OMG PRR rules, W3C RIF rules

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Barkmeyer [mailto:edbark@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 April 2009 17:28
> To: healthcare@xxxxxxx; OMG Ontology PSIG
> Cc: Business Modeling & Integration DTF; Gerald Radack; David M. Price
> Subject: A draft ISO standard for Terminology Services
>
> All,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.)
>
> 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
>
> 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.)
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -Ed
>
> 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.
>
> --
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