Health informatics. Clinical knowledge resources. Metadata

DD CEN/TS 15699:2009 Health informatics. Clinical knowledge resources. Metadata

DD CEN/TS 15699 defines a number of metadata elements that describe documents containing medical knowledge. It is primarily for digital documents provided as web resources, accessible from databases or via file transfer, but can be applicable also to paper documents, e.g. articles in the medical literature.

The metadata here described is not intended to:

• Describe documents about a single patient, such as medical records

• Describe details of the medical content of the document (but some idea of the content can be described via keywords or codes)

• Prescribe criteria for the quality of the document content.

Contents of DD CEN/TS 15699:

• Foreword

• Introduction

• Scope

• Normative references

• Terms and definitions

• Introduction to metadata

• Purpose and format

• Sources of generally useful metadata elements

• Sources of medical metadata

• Characteristics of the metadata element set

• Metadata element structure for medical knowledge resources

• Introduction to the medical metadata elements

• Resource form

• Intended use

• Subject and scope

• Identification and source

• Quality control

• List of metadata elements

• Class diagram

• Bibliography