i would like to thank everyone for the information and attention. i'm trying to do a review about this subject to start my research, but i will do something to analyse the best way to model and persist this kind of data.
Best Regards, *M?rcio Costa* B.Sc. in Computer Science @ Cin/UFPE M.Sc. Candidate in Computer Science @ CIn/UFPE MSN: mdckoury at gmail.com 2012/2/17 pablo pazos <pazospablo at hotmail.com> > Hi Erik, you are right, the uglyness depends on 1. the queries you want > to execute and 2. the programmer background. > > For 1. the "common" queries like get all records for this patient in this > time window, are not that ugly, but more complex queries could be. > For 2. for a XML guy, writing xPath based queries is ok, but for a SQL is > a pain in the a55. > > :D > > I'm hoping to see that paper on AQL->xQuery soon! > > I totally agree that inside the system maybe you don't need a complete RM > structure to handle data instances, but for the service layer (sharing > information with other systems) this is a must. > > > -- > Kind regards, > Ing. Pablo Pazos Guti?rrez > LinkedIn: http://uy.linkedin.com/in/pablopazosgutierrez > Blog: http://informatica-medica.blogspot.com/ > Twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos <http://twitter.com/ppazos> > > > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:21:29 +0100 > > Subject: Re: openEHR - Persistence of Data > > From: erik.sundvall at liu.se > > To: openehr-technical at openehr.org > > > > > Hi! > > > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 23:26, pablo pazos <pazospablo at hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Other models I didn't try yet are Object Oriented DBs and > > > Document Oriented DBs (XML, JSON, ...) [6]. I think DODBs > > > are a good option, fast for store highly hierarchical structures, > > > but you need to write some ugly queries if you want your data back :D > > > > Not necessarily that ugly... we curently auto-convert AQL to XQuery > > and execute towards an XML database. Those queries are very readable. > > > > Then the question is what kind of client system you are aiming at. For > > some use cases you don't really need to map things back to > > openEHR-RM-objects, in web browser based GUIs for example you can keep > > treating the data as documents, document fragments, fragment lists > > etc. and use DOM manipulations, jQuery or similar approaches for most > > data manipulation needs. > > > > Good luck with your work M?rcio and please keep us informed! > > > > Best regards, > > Erik Sundvall > > erik.sundvall at liu.se http://www.imt.liu.se/~erisu/ Tel: +46-13-286733 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openEHR-technical mailing list > > openEHR-technical at openehr.org > > http://lists.chime.ucl.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20120217/9cc9afec/attachment.html>

