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Descriptive Metadata: An Introduction to Terminologies

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A Terminology is a set of phrases (or terms) that are used to categorize or index (tag) content in a particular field of knowledge (for which I’ll use the term knowledge domain or domain for short). This tagging facilitates its subsequent organization, categorization, retrieval and analysis.

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    Dr. Prakash M. Nadkarni M.D.

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Nadkarni, P.M. (2011). Descriptive Metadata: An Introduction to Terminologies. In: Metadata-driven Software Systems in Biomedicine. Health Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-510-1_12

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