ContSys under Ontological Scrutiny
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EN ISO 13940, commonly known as ContSys, is an international standard that provides a system of concepts to support continuity of care and semantic interoperability of information systems. ContSys provides domain-specific terms, definitions and relationships, but was not developed as an ontology. Nevertheless, we think that it might benefit from the application of more formal, ontological analysis. A fragment of ContSys is analysed here. The hypothesis is that such analysis, if extended to the whole specification, will help to further formalize the meaning of ContSys’ concepts and thereby facilitate the adoption, support the further evolution, and assist the on-going maintenance of the standard.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015