Hi all, Would any of you with Python / Django experience be interested in helping with a small open-source project to establish a 'Clinical Knowledge Incubator' website under the auspices of the Foundation? The intention is to establish a very lightly-governed archetype collaboration, simple review and discussion space to enable early communication between possible archetype developers. This is not intended to compete with a more formally-governed repository such as CKM but to allow archetypes, requirements and specification documents to be shared and discussed prior to more formal governance and development processes kicking in.
The site will be based on the open source Snowcloud Clinical Templates framework see clinicaltemplates.org. The work needing done to adapt this for openEHR is broadly .. 1. Add some sort of persistence/ repository back-end for archetypes and associated documentation e.g Github and/ or Dropbox. There is a very nice Python API for the latter which I got working. This does not need to be be particularly complex. Github would probably be a better solution but the limited versioning afforded by Dropbox is probably sufficient. 2. Add the ability to import from openEHR ADL/XML and .opt XML ) into the native XML format. Derek Hoy, the Snowcloud developer, has already partially implemented this but it does need further work. Derek has been good enough to offer further support and guidance. 3. At some point some sort of integration with CKM would be interesting. I will be taking an interest in the developments but have very limited Python skills. Anyone interested? Ian Dr Ian McNicoll office +44 (0)1536 414 994 fax +44 (0)1536 516317 mobile +44 (0)775 209 7859 skype ianmcnicoll ian.mcnicoll at oceaninformatics.com Clinical Modelling Consultant,?Ocean Informatics, UK Director/Clinical Knowledge Editor openEHR Foundation ?www.openehr.org/knowledge Honorary Senior Research Associate, CHIME, UCL SCIMP Working Group, NHS Scotland BCS Primary Health Care ?www.phcsg.org
