Paper on shared archetype formalism

[Thomas Beale <thomas@deepthought.com.au>]

Dear all,

I have posted a draft of a paper on how to approach a shared 
archetype/template formalism which will work for all stakeholders 
interested in producing such arctifacts. See 
http://www.deepthought.com.au/health/archetypes/archetype_language.doc.

Although this work is unfinished, we have decided to publish a version 
now, before the HL7 San Antonio meeting, so that people participating in 
the relevant HL7 groups might have time to read it and comment. I will 
not be there personally, but Sam Heard will, and hopefully there will be 
a slot to discuss it in templates or Structured documents.

The title uses the word "archetype" rather than "template", even though 
the main topic is what is currently called "templates" in HL7. This is 
because the terms "archetype" and "template" are both meaningful and 
different; the paper describes in some detail why.

Since this is an effort to define some semantics that we can all agree 
on, all criticism, no matter how violent, is invited...

best regards

- thomas beale


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