Hi, At the Term_definition section of the ADL specifications (1.4 and 1.5), we can read that "Each term is defined using a structure of name/value pairs, and must at least include the names ?text? and ?description?, which are akin to the usual rubric, and full definition found in terminologies like SNOMED-CT".
Although being in essence true, we can find examples where de description part is not needed. For example, at the openEHR-EHR-OBSERVATION.lab_test-histopathology.v1, we can see: ["at0074"] = < text = <"Aborted"> description = <"*"> > The "*" is the default value inserted by the archetype editor. Shouldn't have more sense to make description a not mandatory field? For very simple data items probably it will not be needed. This also applies to the constraint_definition that follows the same structure. David -- David Moner Cano Grupo de Inform?tica Biom?dica - IBIME Instituto ITACA http://www.ibime.upv.es Universidad Polit?cnica de Valencia (UPV) Camino de Vera, s/n, Edificio G-8, Acceso B, 3? planta Valencia ? 46022 (Espa?a) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20120322/f9dbff24/attachment.html>