Publishing a Multilingual Medical Terminology According to Terminology Standards and Linked Data Principles.

Abstract

peer reviewedThe data source is a multilingual medical database manually created by Mr Marc Jamoulle, a Belgian general practitioner with a long experience in classification and terminologies for general practitioners. It consists of one hundred and seventy-three French terms identified in a guideline concerning heart failure [1], intended for family physicians and published by the Société Scientifique de Médecine Générale (SSMG, Belgium). This resource is a first step towards the creation of a Medical Reference Terminology [2]. Due to the readership of the publication, those terms are often distinct from the ones used in the common language, as well as from those – even more technical – used by the specialized cardiologists; this situation clearly proofs that, because of the diversity of the terms, interoperability is sometimes hard to preserve. All of them..