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TermInfo Principles
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Draft Terminfo principles:
- Recommendations will provide guidance on overlap between the terminology and information models
- Include when (and when not) to post-coordinate
- Recommendations will be driven by use cases
- Guide will include specific and consistent examples of clinical information
- Use cases will include not only clinical information but also technical constraints
- Recommendations will align with the goals of terminology development organizations (including HL7 and others)
- Recommendations must be implementable by stakeholder user communities
- This may mean that recommendations must support more than one approach
- Recommendations will support consistent precision of representation between the terminology and the information model. [I’m still not sure I understand this one. Original text: “Evaluate consistency and precision of representation between the terminology and the information model ”]
- Semantics must be explicit, even in tools that do not easily support explicit semantics (e.g., class diagrams, RDBMS).
- When recommendations provide options, they will specify patterns for semantically rigorous transformations among options. (Last two may overlap a bit)