This Technical Specification defines a number of metadata elements that describe documents containing
medical knowledge, primarily digital documents provided as web resources, accessible from databases or via
file transfer, but can be applicable also to paper documents, e.g. articles in the medical literature.
The metadata should:
~ support unambiguous and international understanding of important aspects to describe a document e.g.
purpose, issuer, intended audience, legal status and scientific background;
be applicable to different kinds of digital documents
e.g. recommendation from consensus of a professional group, regulation by a governmental authority,
clinical trial protocol from a pharmaceutical company, scientific manuscript from a research group,
advice to patients with a specific disease, review article;
~ be possible to present to human readers
including health professionals as well as citizens/patients
,, be potentially usable for automatic processing
e.g. to support search engines to restrict matches to documents of a certain type or quafity level.
The metadata here described is not intended to:
~ describe documents about a single patient, such as medical records;
~ describe details of the medical content of the document (but some idea of the content can be described
via keywords or codes);
~ prescribe criteria for the quality of the document content.
DIN CEN/TS 15699:2009 history
2013DIN EN ISO 13119:2013 Health informatics - Clinical knowledge resources - Metadata (ISO 13119:2012); English version EN ISO 13119:2012
2009DIN CEN/TS 15699:2009 Health informatics - Clinical knowledge resources - Metadata; English version CEN/TS 15699:2009