Hogarth M A, Gertz M, Gorin F A
Applied Medical Informatics Group, UC Davis Health System, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Proc AMIA Symp. 2000:349-53.
Designers of medical computing applications increasingly require terminology support for their systems. Yet, terminology systems today lack standard methodologies for providing terminology support. This invariably means increased implementation time and expense for system developers who need to use terminologies in their applications. We introduce Terminology Query Language (TQL), a simple query language interface to server implementations of concept-oriented terminologies. TQL is a declarative, set-based query language built on a generic entity-relationship (E/R) schema. TQL defines a common query-based mechanism for accessing terminology information from one or more terminology servers over a network connection.
医学计算应用程序的设计者越来越需要其系统的术语支持。然而,当今的术语系统缺乏提供术语支持的标准方法。这必然意味着需要在应用程序中使用术语的系统开发人员的实施时间和费用会增加。我们引入了术语查询语言(TQL),这是一种面向概念的术语服务器实现的简单查询语言接口。TQL是一种基于通用实体关系(E/R)模式构建的声明式、基于集合的查询语言。TQL定义了一种基于查询的通用机制,用于通过网络连接从一个或多个术语服务器访问术语信息。