Mapping Architecture Proposals/Solutions: The Role of the Unified Medical Language System
On the Brink of the Future
What is Mapping?
Why Mapping?
Interterminology Mapping Uses
A Historical View
UMLS Purpose
How to Build It?
UMLS® Metathesaurus®
UMLS Source "Vocabularies"
Adding Vocabulary (or Update) to the Metathesaurus
Recent Metathesaurus Growth
What Has Been Learned?
Current National Directions
Important Proviso
NLM Assumptions about Vocabulary and Health Data
The UMLS as a Resource
NLM Assumptions re: Mappings
Out With the Old, In With the New
Intervocabulary Mapping Projects
Current SNOMED CT "Mapping" Status
Aggregation Maps v. Billing Maps
First Draft of Mappings (MRMAP.RRF)
UMLS Metathesaurus
Email: nelson@nlm.nih.gov
Home Page: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/