title: From terminology to terminology services.
abstract: Terminologies have traditionally been considered as static datasets held in books or databases. The GALEN Terminology Server presents a prototype for a new view of terminologies delivered as a set of functions and services provided to other applications. This facilitates their development and integration as part of a strategy for sharing and re-using information and knowledge. The essential features of the Terminology server are the functions which it can perform; questions which it can answer and statements which it can be told. The GALEN Terminology Server supports these operations through a modular architecture and uniform applications programming interface which allows client applications to ignore the internal structure and simply use the Server for terminological, coding, and linguistic functions.
authors.affiliation: Medical Products Group, Hewlett-Packard Ltd, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: W A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Nowlan
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Rector
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Rush
authors.forename: W D
authors.initials: WD
authors.lastname: Solomon
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D012984:Software; D013358:Subject Headings; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface