Matteo The main documents are on the openEHR website here. http://www.openehr.org/archetypes_technical.htm
I have written a paper with others addressing this issue last year. http://www.openehr.org/downloads/archetypes/templates_and_archetypes.pdf I would be interested in knowing if this resolves the issues - feedback welcome. Cheers, Sam > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org > [mailto:owner-openehr-technical at openehr.org]On Behalf Of Thomas Beale > Sent: Monday, 26 January 2004 12:51 PM > To: Matteo Piazza > Cc: openehr-technical at openehr.org > Subject: Re: archetypes & templates > > > Matteo Piazza wrote: > > >I am a newby in the community of openEHR. It is not > >clear to me the distinction between "archetype" and > >"template". It seems that a template is based on an > >archetype. Let's start from archetype in fig. 11, pag. > >26 in REV 2.2.1. > > > > > I guess you are referring to the original paper here > (http://www.deepthought.com.au/it/archetypes.html); these diagrams are > quite old... > > >Is it possible to have an example in which the > >"new_value" slot is implemented with a concrete value? > > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by that - can you explain in a bit more > detail? In the examples page of ADL archetypes > (http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/archetype_examples.html) you will see a > BP archetype > (http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/openehr-ehr-observation.bp_measur > ement.draft.adl.html); > in it there is an ELEMENT for systolic, one for diastolic, and another > for 'new elements' - the line > > ELEMENT[at9000] occurrences ? {0..*} ? {*} > > does this. But we could constrain it further as well - the > example above allows anything you want. If you want to > constrain it to data type = QUANTITY, you do: > > ELEMENT[at9000] occurrences ? {0..*} ? { > value ? { > QUANTITY ? {*} > } > } > > >And an example of at least a couple of templates based > >on this new defined archetype? > > > > > we will publish one soon, and the tool to parse them. But as an initial > taste, see the attachment. > > hope this helps. > > - thomas beale > > >Thank you very much. > > > >Matteo Piazza > > > >__________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > >http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > >- > >If you have any questions about using this list, > >please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org > > > > > > > > > > > -- > .............................................................. > CTO Ocean Informatics - http://www.OceanInformatics.biz > > openEHR - http://www.openEHR.org > Archetypes - http://www.oceaninformatics.biz/adl.html > Community Informatics - > http://www.deepthought.com.au/ci/rii/Output/mainTOC.html > .............................................................. > > - If you have any questions about using this list, please send a message to d.lloyd at openehr.org

