Re: Archetype publication question - implications for implementers [ long ]

2015-10-19 Thread Thomas Beale
surely the obvious approach is that the stored field contains the UCUM case-sensitive code, and that applications / services use UCUM tables to render whatever display form is asked for in a client call? (I realise openEHR archetypes are not doing this; they should be...) there's another

Re: Archetype publication question - implications for implementers [ long ]

2015-10-15 Thread Thomas Beale
Eric, nice summary of issues. If I can take the liberty of pulling out what I think are your key issues to worry about + recommendations. I bolded my own subset of those ... On 10/10/2015 10:07, Eric Browne wrote: *Notes on UCUM* * UCUM does not supply normative names of units. * Some

Re: Archetype publication question - implications for implementers [ long ]

2015-10-15 Thread Grahame Grieve
hi Eric Some comments: * UCUM introduces ambiguity, despite the above claim. > please demonstrate examples. > * UCUM does not provide a single code for each unit - it provides 2 > normative codes, as well as a non-normative display/print rendition and an > ad-hoc name. For each unit, UCUM

Re: Archetype publication question - implications for implementers [ long ]

2015-10-10 Thread Eric Browne
Hi Heather et al, Whilst I have followed this thread and agree with many of the observations and conclusions reached so far, I would like to make the following observations, which are restricted to the aspect of the “non-UCUM" unit described in Heather’s original posting. They have more