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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 3:26 PM Thomas Beale <[email protected]> wrote: > At the moment I think you can safely default the namespace attribute to a > value like "EHR", "Demographic", "Terminology" etc, which acts as a service > name or type. > > Now, if you look at the OBJECT_ID sub-types > <https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/BASE/latest/base_types.html#_identification_package>, > you'll see that they are either UID-based - i.e. based on GUID or maybe OID > (avoid if humanly possible), or reverse domain names. These are all already > globally unique. > > The subtypes ARCHETYPE_ID, TEMPLATE_ID (not in use) are also globally > unique. To make archetype ids properly globally unique, they can/should > have true namespaces prepended, as described here > <https://specifications.openehr.org/releases/AM/latest/Identification.html#_source_artefact_identification>. > Section 7 of that doc gives you some examples. The class that defines those > identifiers is ARCHETYPE_HRID. All of these id types are for design > artefacts, so I think not your primary concern right now. The type > TERMINOLOGY_ID is the same, but less well controlled, but usually reliably > global, because major terminologies tend to be in global use. > > The remaining type, GENERIC_ID, is assumed to be a string with a scheme > type that makes it unique, but might not. The example is things like > patient hospital ids. Ideally, national patient ids, social security > numbers etc are unique. > > - thomas > On 13/12/2018 03:14, Dileep V S wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > Thanks for the info. > > Just to clarify my understanding, you feel that the namespace attribute in > for information only and so can be set as we choose. > > However, I am not sure that I understand your statement "all target > OBJECT_IDs of the various concrete types are already globally unique". Do > you mean using UUIDs for EHRID, PersonID etc? Can you elaborate some more > one how this is being managed? > > > -- > Thomas Beale > Principal, Ars Semantica <http://www.arssemantica.com> > Consultant, ABD Project, Intermountain Healthcare > <https://intermountainhealthcare.org/> > Management Board, Specifications Program Lead, openEHR Foundation > <http://www.openehr.org> > Chartered IT Professional Fellow, BCS, British Computer Society > <http://www.bcs.org/category/6044> > Health IT blog <http://wolandscat.net/> | Culture blog > <http://wolandsothercat.net/> | The Objective Stance > <https://theobjectivestance.net/> > _______________________________________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org >
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