This page is the top level page for the LexEVS CTS2 Guide documentation. This page and any child pages will moved to the LexEVS space once that is created during the VKC migration from Media Wiki to Confluence.
The guide includes the following sections:
What is CTS2?
CTS2 stands for “Common Terminology Services Release 2”. It provides a standardized interface for the usage and management of terminologies. CTS2 specifications are based (and expand) on ‘Common Terminology Service’ specifications as outlined in HL7 Service Function Model – Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU Release 2).
How is CTS2 important in vocabulary management?
Structured terminologies have some common ‘resources’ such as Code Systems, Domains, Value Sets and access to these resources is enabled usually through a service interface. CTS2 strives to provide a consistent representation and flexible service interfaces to structured terminologies. This enables us to accurately represent and manage wide variant of vocabularies and other lexically-based resources.
CTS2 Platform Independent Model (PIM) provides a standard service information and computational model. The information model specifies the structural definition, attributes and associations of these common terminology ‘resources’ and computations model specifies the service descriptions and interfaces needed to access and maintain structured terminologies.
