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The importance of Medical Data Dictionaries in information and knowledge processing in medicine increased in the last years. To reach a practicable use in Health Care Information Systems, the availability of a Medical Data Dictionary in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is necessary, providing a standardized access with the Structured Query Language. The objective of our project was the migration of a previously developed vocabulary to a RDBMS. Our Entity-Relationship-Model contains 4 entities: term, link, maintenance and library. Each element of the medical terminology has to be defined as a term. A link connects two terms or one existing link and a term through a link type. That link type itself is defined as a term. The Medical Data Dictionary was successfully implemented with ORACLE7. The database model is flexible enough to store existing taxonomic vocabularies and to support concept representation languages.
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Stausberg, J., Laghmouch, M., Moraga, C. (1997). Realization of a Medical Data Dictionary in a Relational Database Management System. In: Klar, R., Opitz, O. (eds) Classification and Knowledge Organization. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59051-1_57
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