OK, guys, here's a brand new reference: http://www.springer.com/public+health/book/978-0-85729-509-5 This concerns Prakash Nadkarni, of Yale University, and his new book, to be generally available in a few days, *Metadata-driven Software Systems in Biomedicine*. He just now told me about it. (I have no financial stake in this). It's been a long process for him and I'm proud he finally got there.
I told him about this discussion and he said, "If these guys can't understand that XML itself is a specialized, hierarchical form of EAV that uses text instead of structured columns, there's ..." [well, I'd better leave out the rest]. He does like the OpenEHR concept of archetypes, however. Thanks, Randy On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Roger Erens <roger.erens at e-s-c.biz> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 04:54, Randolph Neall <randy.neall at veriquant.com> > wrote: > > ... > > Some EAV designs are > > foolish and unusable. But others aren't. > > Thanks for your interesting explanation, Randy. Do you have some > examples or links available that may teach us unusable/usable designs? > > Roger > _______________________________________________ > 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/20110608/cf8c7eb9/attachment.html>
