Koray, What metrics do you want to define?
Gerard On Feb 11, 2008, at 10:40 AM, Koray Atalag wrote: > Dear All, > > I started this thread to get some feedback for finding methods/metrics > to test & validate maintainability and interoperability (of Archetype > based two-level apps). And I got very nice ones; however for > interoperability, apart from Gerard's interface numbers I did not get > any and interestingly from a quick literature survey I got very > little. > I mean there are some indirect approaches but not straightforward. My > case is a little more easier: > > 1) There is an up and running clinical IS developed with single level > methodology based on an internationally agreed terminology including > relationships and structure (domain knowledge let's say) > 2) There is a complete Archetype model of this terminology using > openEHR > RM which can comfortably be considered as a domain ontology (it has > more > than what is given in terminology; i.e. existences, cardinalities) > 3) These two can be said to have the same domain knowledge; ie. one > hardcoded and one two-level modelled. > > Now can you think about a method to evaluate the interoperability > levels/score of two systems? > > Do we need a remote system for benchmarking (i.e. connect and see how > they interoperate)? > > Sorry to bother....but if we can get this straight perhaps we can > express comfortably that a two-level app beats a single level app 7x > in > maintainability and 5x interoperability. Or beats 2x HL7 system in > maintenance but is beaten 2x in interoperablity. Perhaps I am being > too > naive but it is worth trying. -- <private> -- Gerard Freriks, MD Huigsloterdijk 378 2158 LR Buitenkaag The Netherlands T: +31 252544896 M: +31 620347088 E: gfrer at luna.nl Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Benjamin Franklin 11 Nov 1755 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20080211/90210170/attachment.html>
