Actually, Eiffel has nothing to do with it (I wrote my own date/time libraries based on ISO 8601 semantics). What I am influenced by is what I see in CKM and other repositories.
openEHR CKM NEHTA CKM On 18/03/2012 21:00, Sam Heard wrote: > Hi > > This is an interesting discussion. It seems that we might have hit the issue > of defining data types independent of a reference model. In a reference > model we do want to know that there are a limited set of types (formally > expressed) that can be used at any point. > > I was influenced by the discussion at CIMI that demonstrated this. > > So the sort of textural elements you have within the datatypes that allow > someone to say Autumn for datetime (HumanDate) are probably best dealt with > in models where that is appropriate and with a suitable set of > terminologies. > > An uncertain datetime is better for processing than a text (soon after my > mother died). There is no doubt about the usefulness of the text, just that > it does not belong in a date field. > > The FHIR may be suitable for messages at this point in time, if so, it is > easy to port information to this. > > Let's keep this thread alive and get a little broader input. Thomas is > influenced by Eiffel, Grahame by XML. Most developers will probably sit > somewhere in between in terms of requirements for rigor. > > Cheers, Sam > * > > * > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120318/08af54a7/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: fggghfab.png Type: image/png Size: 21360 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120318/08af54a7/attachment-0002.png> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: adfjbjhd.png Type: image/png Size: 19995 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120318/08af54a7/attachment-0003.png>
