The Open Terminology Services (OTS) project
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The ITS2 Database
Published on: March 12, 2012
Harold R Solbrig1, Daniel C Armbrust, Christopher G Chute
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Abstract:
The Open Terminology Services (OTS) project provides a common, well-specified mechanism to access terminological content in a vendor and platform neutral fashion. The project includes a freely available API specification and an open source reference implementation. The API specification derives from the OMG Lexicon Query Services interface specification as a foundation and defines mechanisms for browsing, querying and import terminological content. The Java-based reference implementation uses the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for a back end, and provides a mechanism to query and distribute heterogeneous terminological content using a common format. The project includes the CTS (Central Terminology Services) subset under HL7.
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