Joubert M, Aymard S, Fieschi D, Volot F, Staccini P, Robert J J, Fieschi M
LERTIM, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Int J Med Inform. 1998 May;49(3):297-309. doi: 10.1016/s1386-5056(98)00084-7.
Large information systems handle massive volume of data stored in heterogeneous sources. Each server has its own model of representation of concepts with regard to its aims. One of the main problems end-users encounter when accessing different servers is to match their own viewpoint on biomedical concepts with the various representations that are made in the databases servers. The aim of the project ARIANE is to provide end-users with easy-to-use and natural means to access and query heterogeneous information databases. The objectives of this research work consist in building a conceptual interface by means of the Internet technology inside an enterprise Intranet and to propose a method to realize it. This method is based on the knowledge sources provided by the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) project of the US National Library of Medicine. Experiments concern queries to three different information servers: PubMed, a Medline server of the NLM; Thériaque, a French database on drugs implemented in the Hospital Intranet; and a Web site dedicated to Internet resources in gastroenterology and nutrition, located at the Faculty of Medicine of Nice (France). Accessing to each of these servers is different according to the kind of information delivered and according to the technology used to query it. Dealing with health care professional workstation, the authors introduced in the ARIANE project quality criteria in order to attempt a homogeneous and efficient way to build a query system able to be integrated in existing information systems and to integrate existing and new information sources.
大型信息系统处理存储在异构源中的海量数据。每个服务器都有其基于自身目标的概念表示模型。终端用户在访问不同服务器时遇到的主要问题之一是，如何将自己对生物医学概念的观点与数据库服务器中的各种表示相匹配。ARIANE项目的目标是为终端用户提供易于使用且自然的方式来访问和查询异构信息数据库。这项研究工作的目标包括在企业内部网中借助互联网技术构建一个概念界面，并提出一种实现它的方法。该方法基于美国国立医学图书馆统一医学语言系统（UMLS）项目提供的知识源。实验涉及对三个不同信息服务器的查询：PubMed，美国国立医学图书馆的一个Medline服务器；Thériaque，一个在医院内部网中实现的法国药品数据库；以及位于法国尼斯医学院的一个专门提供胃肠病学和营养领域互联网资源的网站。根据所提供信息的类型以及用于查询的技术，访问这些服务器中的每一个的方式都有所不同。在ARIANE项目中，针对医疗保健专业人员工作站，作者引入了质量标准，以便尝试以一种统一且高效的方式构建一个能够集成到现有信息系统中并整合现有和新信息源的查询系统。
