A Method to Use Metadata in Legacy Web Applications: The Samply.MDR.Injector
Title | A Method to Use Metadata in Legacy Web Applications: The Samply.MDR.Injector |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Kern J., Tas D., Ulrich H., Schmidt E.E., Ingenerf J., Ückert F., Lablans M. |
Journal | Studies in health technology and informatics |
Volume | 253 |
Pages | 45-49 |
Date Published | 2018 |
Publication Language | eng |
ISSN | 0926-9630 |
Abstract | Whenever medical data is integrated from multiple sources, it is regarded good practice to separate data from information about its meaning, such as designations, definitions or permissible values (in short: metadata). However, the ways in which applications work with metadata are imperfect: Many applications do not support fetching metadata from externalized sources such as metadata repositories. In order to display human-readable metadata in any application, we propose not to change the application, but to provide a library that makes a change to the user interface. The goal of this work is to provide a way to "inject" the meaning of metadata keys into the web-based frontend of an application to make it "metadata aware". |
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Alternate Journal | Stud Health Technol Inform |