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Mediation services with health information sources.
S Aymard1, M Joubert, D Fieschi
1LERTIM, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France.
Proceedings. AMIA Symposium
|November 18, 2000
Summary
Mediators were developed to access diverse information sources for the ARIANE project. This approach combines knowledge and software engineering for scalable and reusable components.
Area of Science:
- Computer Science
- Information Science
Background:
- Accessing diverse information sources presents challenges in data integration and interoperability.
- The ARIANE project aimed to address these challenges through a novel mediation framework.
Purpose of the Study:
- To design and implement mediators for accessing various information sources within the ARIANE project.
Main Methods:
- Mediators are dynamically constructed using knowledge from UMLS and an information source catalog.
- Query translation processes adapt requests to target source syntax.
- Operating system communication services facilitate mediator functionality.
Main Results:
- A detailed scenario demonstrated the complete mediation process for an indexed website.
- The system successfully integrated and accessed information from a specified source.
Conclusions:
- The developed approach integrates knowledge and software engineering principles.
- It leverages operating system services for enhanced scalability and reusability of software components.
- This mediation strategy offers a robust solution for diverse information access.