MEETING OF WHO COLLABORATING CENTRES FOR THE FAMILY OF INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS

Until 2001 the Dutch translations of international classifications, such as ICD-10 and the Beta drafts of ICIDH-2, were only published as books. Although being laborious, for this purpose the processing and maintaining the updates of the classifications, word processing environments seemed to be sufficient. In fact two different word processing programs were used. In the late nineties of the 20 th century several quests for an electronic version of the ICD and, at that time, the ICIDH in a database format reached the Dutch Centre. Also quests for more accessible, electronic versions of the Classifications were put to us. For the Dutch Centre the question was, how these quests could be answered and how different required formats could be maintained in a standardised way. In 2001 the Dutch Centre decided to adopt the CEN/TS 14463 (ClaML) a Technical Standard for structuring Classifications, and to produce the ICF and the ICD-10 in this format to meet the quests for an accessible electronic version and a ClaML (XML for Classifications) for database production. We will demonstrate the Dutch electronic versions of ICF and ICD-10 and show how the qualifiers in ICF and additional coding in ICD-10 are handled. Also some topics for the production of a book version of ICD and ICF, using the same source, will be addressed. This document is not issued to the general public, and all rights are reserved by the World Health Organization (WHO). The document may not be reviewed, abstracted, quoted, reproduced or translated, in part or in whole, without the prior written permission of WHO. No part of this document may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means - electronic, mechanical or other - without the prior written permission of WHO. The views expressed in documents by named authors are solely the responsibility of those authors.