Hi Olef, The text is the Node name, the Description is simply a more detailed explanation of the meaning of the node. Further term bindings are indeed possible...
In the Archetype Editor, have a look at the Details tab and then at the "Node meaning in Terminologies". It is possible to bind one or more external terms to any local term in openEHR- this is a quick way of binding the node name. Also look at the Terminology Tab near the top of the screen, then Term Bindings, where any local text term can be bound to a single external term. It is also possible to bid any local term to an external termset via the Constraints tab. In the absence of any universally agreed formal method of describing termsets, this currently uses a descriptive 'placeholder' e.g is_a Cardiac Disease. Have a look in the Reference model specification for the DV_TEXT type for more detailed information on Term binding, constraints http://www.openehr.org/releases/1.0.1/architecture/rm/data_types_im.pdf Cheers, Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office / fax +44(0)141 560 4657 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian at mcmi.co.uk Clinical Analyst - Ocean Informatics ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com BCS Primary Health Care Specialist Group ? www.phcsg.org 2008/11/25 Olof Torgersson <oloft at chalmers.se> > Hi, > In openEHR there are two labels 'text' and 'description' used. > > For instance > > text = "Increased bowel sounds" > description="Bowel sounds are more intense than normal" > > In the tools I have tested 'text' is used as a label to input fields. > > To me it would have been more natural to have 3 items, let's say 'term', > 'text' and 'description' where term could be some agreed > upon language independent code and text and description are localised into > different languages. > > I guess this has been considered, but my question then is if something like > this was considered what were the reasons for discarding > such an approach? > > Regards > > Olof Torgersson > > --- > Olof Torgersson > > Associate Professor > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > Chalmers University of Technology and G?teborg University > SE-412 96 G?teborg, Sweden > > email: oloft at chalmers.se > phone: +46 31 772 54 06 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20081125/9666dae1/attachment.html>
