Ceusters Werner
Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2010 Nov 13;2010:96-100.
Evolutionary Terminology Auditing is a technique designed to measure quality improvements of terminologies over successive versions. It uses the most recent version of a terminology as a benchmark and assumes that changes in the underlying ontology correspond to changes in either that part of reality that is covered by the terminology, or the authors' understanding - if not the 'state of the art' in general - thereof. Applied to SNOMED CT over 18 versions, it reveals that at the level of the concepts minimal improvements are obtained and that the second assumption holds for far less changes than one would expect. It is recommended that future versions of SNOMED CT provide more explicit documentation for each introduced change.
进化术语审核是一种旨在衡量术语在连续版本中质量改进情况的技术。它将术语的最新版本作为基准，并假定基础本体的变化对应于该术语所涵盖的那部分现实的变化，或者作者的理解——如果不是一般意义上的“最新技术水平”的话——的变化。应用于18个版本的SNOMED CT时，研究发现，在概念层面上改进甚微，而且第二个假设所适用的变化远少于预期。建议SNOMED CT的未来版本为每个引入的变化提供更明确的文档记录。
