Hi Marc,
Thank you for posting this very important paper, that is certainly one of the most quoted ones in the terminology space.
I particularly appreciate the diagrams that are clearly expressing some of the fundamental concepts.
Hello, I have posted Cimino's seminal paper on characteristics of good medical vocabularies at the root of the Documents tab. Everyone should give it a read.
Desiderata for Controlled Medical Vocabularies
Improving the quality of patient care through the effective sharing of clinical information among health care organizations, clinicians and their patients.