Hi Tom,

I think min_version can be problematic as certain terms can be deprecated in 
future versions and then this naming could be misleading. That said for SNOMED 
it’ll still be present in future releases just marked as inactive. For other 
terminologies this cannot be guaranteed. BTW SNOMED uses term Effective Time

Cheers,

-koray

From: openEHR-clinical [mailto:openehr-clinical-boun...@lists.openehr.org] On 
Behalf Of Thomas Beale
Sent: Tuesday, 18 July 2017 2:19 a.m.
To: Openehr-Technical; For openEHR clinical discussions
Subject: Terminology bindings ... again

Recently we discussed terminology bindings. We probably still have not got them 
right, but we don't have a model of what we think they should be. I posted a 
quick idea of a possible more structured version:



    term_bindings = <

        ["snomed_ct"] = <

            ["/data[id3]/events[id4]/data[id2]/items[id26]"] = (SIMPLE_BINDING) 
<

               target = <http://snomedct.info/id/169895004> -- Apgar score at 1 
minute

               notes = <"some notes">

               min_version = <"2017-02-01">

               etc = <"etc">

            >

            ["id26"] = (CONSTRAINT_BINDING) <

                 target = <"71388002 |Procedure| : 405815000 |Procedure device| 
 =  122456005 |Laser device| , 260686004 |Method|  =  129304002 |Excision - 
action| ,405813007 |Procedure site - direct|  =  1549700l6 |Ovarian structure|">

                    min_version = <"2017-04-01">

                 notes = <"some notes">

                 etc = <"etc">

             >

        >

    >

I noted that the right hand side of a binding can be a few different things, 
each of which would be accompanied by various meta-data, including:

  *   a single concept code
  *   a single code or other id referring to an external value set in an 
external terminology (in SNOMED it is a SNOMED code; for e.g. ICD10, there is 
no standard that I know of)
  *   a composition expression that refers to a more refined concept
  *   possible a constraint expression that locally determines a value set 
intensionally, to be resolved by application to the Terminology service.
I'd rather avoid the last, because of the brittleness of intensional ref-set 
query syntax expressions. In any case, we need a better idea of what meta-data 
are needed. E.g.:

  *   something to do with (min) version of terminology required for the 
reference to be valid
  *   something to do with purpose?
  *   other notes - a tagged list of basic types?
I would like to get a better idea of the requirements.

- thomas

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