Ed, this is an interesting technical point. One key aspect of the archetype approach is the heavy use of dependable paths through the data for querying. It means you can always get to the finest grain item, regardless of whether the data stay as a 'package' or not. This is the kind of flexibility that I think would be useful in your environment.
- thomas On 26/06/2010 22:34, William E Hammond wrote: > Actually, my e-mail was more of a hello. I didn't think you were giving > Duke a hard time. Our approach is similiar to what you are doing, however, > we are focusing at the atomic level. Building from that is simply a > construct. It will be i nteresting to find out what stays packaged and > what breaks out. My approach is to make the data independent of the > construction. If the data element is never dealth with without thw full > structure we will keep it packaged; else not. I think we let our > experiences influence how we move forward. But as you know, I try to pay > attention to what everyone is doin g so I can use the best approaches. > > * * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/private/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20100627/492ae2ff/attachment.html>
