Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Sam Heard
Hi Anthanasios I think time has shown that this is probably an area of over engineering in openEHR. All archetypes are now ITEM_TREE and could be clusters. If we think of these as providing constraint on an underlying cluster - ITEM_LIST is a cluster of ELEMENTs and ITEM_TABLE sets up a set of

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Athanasios, Just to back up what Sam has said, experience has shown that it is best practice to model every top-level archetype structure as ITEM_TREE to allow for maximum flexibility to develop the model in the future without breaking backward compatibility, and as Sam has said there appears

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Thomas Beale
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An ACTION or INSTRUCTION referencing an AGENT, is it possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Pablo, I am just catching up with some of these discussions. Although in theory all OBSERVATIONS must also have associated ACTIONS to record the execution of the process, in practice this is not necessary or the Action will refer to a group of Observations e.g. the Action to a request to Take

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Athanasios Anastasiou
Hello everyone Thank you very much for your responses Sam Ian, they were helpful. In any case the changes you describe do not seem to be reducing the flexibility of the model. This definitely also helped me in clarifying the use of ITEM_TABLE. There is another part to that question though

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Athanasios, a) The very first thing you have to do is to decide on the structure and this is static. The archetyped definition sits within a sub-class of item structure. So if I am creating a new Observation archetype and want to add elements to 'data' I first have to decide which structure to

Regarding the role of ITEM_STRUCTURE

2012-06-20 Thread Diego Boscá
So you have to select the ITEM_STRUCTURE class but you don't have to select the EVENT class? (most CKM archetypes have now EVENT and not INTERVAL_EVENT or POINT_EVENT) I think it should be allowed/forbidden following only one criteria. 2012/6/20 Ian McNicoll Ian.McNicoll at oceaninformatics.com