UNE-EN ISO 13119:2022

This International Standard specifies a number of metadata elements that describe resources 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 elements:

support unambiguous and international understanding of important aspects to describe a resource

e.g. purpose, issuer, intended audience, legal status and scientific background;

are applicable to different kinds of digital resources, 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;

are possible to present to human readers including health professionals as well as citizens/patients

are potentially usable for automatic processing e.g. to support search engines to restrict matches to

documents of a certain type or quality level.

The metadata elements defined in this International Standard are not intended to:

describe documents about a single patient, such as medical records;

describe details of the medical content of the resource (but some idea of the content can be described

via keywords or codes);

prescribe criteria for the quality of the resource content.