Nowlan W A, Rector A L, Rush T W, Solomon W D
Medical Products Group, Hewlett-Packard Ltd, Bristol, UK.
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Terminologies have traditionally been considered as static datasets held in books or databases. The GALEN Terminology Server presents a prototype for a new view of terminologies delivered as a set of functions and services provided to other applications. This facilitates their development and integration as part of a strategy for sharing and re-using information and knowledge. The essential features of the Terminology server are the functions which it can perform; questions which it can answer and statements which it can be told. The GALEN Terminology Server supports these operations through a modular architecture and uniform applications programming interface which allows client applications to ignore the internal structure and simply use the Server for terminological, coding, and linguistic functions.
术语传统上被视为保存在书籍或数据库中的静态数据集。盖伦术语服务器展示了一种术语新视图的原型,术语以提供给其他应用程序的一组功能和服务的形式呈现。这有助于将它们作为信息和知识共享与重用策略的一部分进行开发和集成。术语服务器的基本特性是它能够执行的功能、能够回答的问题以及能够被告知的陈述。盖伦术语服务器通过模块化架构和统一的应用程序编程接口来支持这些操作,这使得客户端应用程序无需关注其内部结构,只需将服务器用于术语、编码和语言功能即可。