Building a Terminology Server with a RDBMS
Jürgen Stausberg, M. Laghmouch, C. Moraga · Studies in health technology and informatics · 1996
We implemented a Data Dictionary with the relational database management system ORACLE7 as a part of a Terminology Server. The data modeling was carried out using the extended ER-Model of R. Barker. Our data model includes the core entities term and link. Term comprises terminological constructs like concept, relationship, attribute, etc. Connections between terms are realized by the entity link. A link consists of a start_term a link_type and a target_term. In addition a link could be used in the same way as a term. especially for the construction of compositional structures. The main advantages of our implementation are the high flexibility of the data model and the standardized access with the Structured Query Language. We will extend the database step by step to a Terminology Server.