主题图技术在消费者健康信息资源组织中的应用——以糖尿病为例

Application of Topic Maps in Consumer Health Information Resources Organization——Illustrated by Diabetes Mellitus Information Resources

针对医学知识有限以及医学专业词汇与非医学专业人员用词(即消费者健康词汇)之间存在的差异,使消费者很难准确理解和检索医学健康信息的现状,利用主题图技术对消费者健康信息资源进行组织,以糖尿病为例,利用Ontopia公司开发的主题图工具进行实验,将同一概念的不同表达(即医学专业术语与消费者健康词汇)集合起来,并对医学概念之间的复杂关系进行揭示。这不仅能使消费者以他们熟悉的语言(消费者健康词汇)进行浏览和检索,还能帮助消费者对医学知识进行正确理解。

Limited medical knowledge, and the gaps between special medical terminology and the vocabulary used by consumers （Consumer Health Vocabulary, CHV） may cause the problem that health consumers often have difficulty in understanding and searching these information. This paper proposes a method of organizing consumer health information resources using topic maps, and the topic maps tools designed by the Ontopia corporation are adopted to organize the consumer health information resources about diabetes mellitus as the experiment. Different expressions of the same concept can be collected and the complex relationship between medical information can be displayed, so that consumers can not only initiate a search and browse the medical knowledge structures using their familiar vocabulary（CHV） , but also understand exactly the medical knowledge.