I think the #1 requirement is that the CRM be a machine-readable spec so that 
one can
derive other forms of output than a human-readable document, and do schema-type 
checks
on the document.  My cursory browse of the source suggests that only simple 
tagging is used
(ie headings) in the spec - but I may well simply be not-understanding how the 
editors work!

For example, when I see something like this in the Word source[1]:

<w:t xml:space="preserve"> assumptions about the scale of the associated 
phenomena. In particular all events are seen as synthetic processes consisting 
of coherent phenomena. Therefore E4 Period is a superclass of E5 Event. For 
example, a modern clinical E67 Birth can be seen as both an atomic E5 Event and 
as an E4 Period that consists of multiple activities performed by multiple 
instances of E39 Actor. </w:t>

my immediate worry is that there doesn’t _appear_ to be any validation of the 
names of entities. When I see “E67 Birth” here,
I wonder what checks are in place to stop the editor typing “E67 Brith” :-} 


[1] the distributed version is .doc, so I converted it to .docx in order to 
read it.

Sebastian Rahtz      
Chief Data Architect
University of Oxford IT Services
+44 1865 283431






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