What are names? What are names used for? Names are nothing but a set of strings consisting of characters. What are names used for?
Most often we need them to add new information to the correct file. (Correct meaning the file of the same person we saw the previous time) Names are to add a new document to other documents. And this collection of documents are about the same person. Sometimes we need a name in order to be able to attach it to a person. We need a name because we have to use the correct name to send the bill. Sometimes we really need to know the real identity of a person. In most cases the real identity is not important. We only need an identifier to locate documents. In other words what is the use case we are talking about? Once we know this, we know what we are talking about. Gerard -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, arts Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands +31 252 544896 +31 654 792800 On 12 Mar 2005, at 20:11, lakewood at copper.net wrote: > Names are unusual. We have 'official' names (e.g., birth certificate) > and 'unofficial' names > (e.g., those we choose ourselves and others we are given). A brother > migrated to the > Southern US states, married and had four children. I remember 'Gator' > and 'Armadillo'; > I can't remember the official names and they probably do not like > using them. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1427 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20050312/b49dda8c/attachment.bin>
