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  Link   Cimino, JJ. Desiderata for controlled medical vocabularies in the twenty-first century. Methods Inf Med (1998) vol. 37 (4-5) pp. 394-403
Applies to vocabularies such as SNOMED.
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  Link   Folk LC, Hahn AW, Patrick TB, Allen GK, Smith AB, Wilcke JR. Salvaging legacy data: mapping an obsolete medical nomenclature to a modern one. Biomed Sci Instrum (2002) vol. 38 pp. 405-10
Describes mapping SNVDO to SNOMED-RT.
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  Link   McDonald et al. LOINC, a universal standard for identifying laboratory observations: a 5-year update. Clin Chem (2003) vol. 49 (4) pp. 624-33
Describes the Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) database and its purpose.
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  Link   Talbot, RB. Veterinary medical informatics. J Am Vet Med Assoc (1991) vol. 199 (1) pp. 52-7
This is a seminal paper in the field, written by Dr. Richard Talbot. Anyone interested in veterinary informatics should start by reading this paper.
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