Although the OID and UUID as used in the archetypes are (in the most
simple (one arc) OID-occurrence) technical interchangeable is their
semantical meaning completely different. So what do we want to express
here? Is it ever used in the way a OID is meant to be used? (to trace
back the organization that is responsible for creating/maintaining the
archetype and assign a purpose/meaning to the archetype)
The OID is a paper tiger, it suggests something, with structured
meaning, but no organization I know has the overhead of maintaining
useful use of OID's in archetypes implemented. That is why, also, they
do not occur in CKM and no-one ever complained about that, for ten
years. No software I know is interpreting the arcs of the OID in the
uid-property of an archetype, it would run into trouble when it did. The
tooling (including CKM) has no way to support administrative overhead.
That the use of OID in the uid-property of archetypes is not useful, is
illustrated by replacing the OID by a UUID in ADL/AOM 2.0.x
When remaining to the OID in 1.4.x, we create an illusion, we suggest
some structure in the uid-property which is not there. In fact opposite,
we suggest that all archetypes are to be maintained by different
organizations because they have a different uid and only one arc.
The problem I have is that the current situation with OID in the
uid-property corrupts the administrative use. We write a UUID, we call
it OID but we treat it as a UUID, because the practical use does not
allow to see it as a meaningful structure.
Bert
On 15-06-17 03:17, Heath Frankel wrote:
Hi Thomas,
Your statement that the use of HIER_OBJECT_ID in the AOM1.4 spec is
used for OIDs is incorrect. HIER_OBJECT_ID is a complex type with a
value attribute of type UID, which may be either UUID, ISO_OID or
INTERNET_ID.
The bigger issue is the HIER_OBJECT_ID is incompatible with UUID from
a XML schema perspective as UUID is a simple type with a restricted
string value while HIER_OBJECT_ID is a complex type with a child
element value. The V1.4 AOM XML schema uses this HIER_OBJECT_ID type
(as per the AOM specification) and since the OPT schema inherits this
model, it also uses this type and all OPTs generated by CKM (and the
template designer) populate the uid element with the template GUID
specified in the OET file.
I suggest that the ADL 2 specification is that one that needs to
change or there needs to be a specified mapping between the two.
Regards
Heath
*From:*openEHR-technical
[mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] *On Behalf Of
*Thomas Beale
*Sent:* Thursday, 15 June 2017 5:40 AM
*To:* Openehr-Technical <openehr-technical@lists.openehr.org>
*Subject:* AOM 1.4 - Archetype.uid a UUID or OID?
Bert picked up an anomaly in this PR
<https://openehr.atlassian.net/browse/SPECPR-219> that I think should
probably be fixed. ARCHETYPE.uid is of type UUID in the AOM2 spec, but
of type HIER_OBJECT_ID in the AOM1.4 spec (the latter type is the
openEHR type for OIDs). However it appears that all ADL1.4 archetypes
that have a uid have it as a Guid (i.e. UUID), and I assume the
various tools do as well. We avoid Oids like the plague in openEHR,
and I am not aware of them being used anywhere.
If we can verify that everything assumes a UUID for this field, then
the spec is wrong, and we should update it from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3, i.e.
treat this as an error correction.
Could tool makers check this issue and report here?
thanks
- thomas
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