Appendix

Acknowledgements

Primary Author

  • Thomas Beale, Ars Semantica, UK; openEHR International Board.

Contributors

This specification has benefited from input from the openEHR and wider health informatics community. The openEHR Foundation would like to recognise the following people and institutions.

  • Sebastian Garde PhD, Ocean Informatics

  • Heather Leslie MD, Ocean Informatics

  • Ian McNicoll MD, MSc, Ocean Informatics UK

  • Martin van der Meer, Code24, Netherlands

  • David Moner PhD, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

  • Erik Sundvall PhD, Linkoping University, Sweden

Trademarks

  • 'openEHR' is a registered trademark of The openEHR Foundation

  • 'SNOMED CT' is a registered trademark of IHTSDO

Supporters

The work reported in this paper has been funded by the following organisations:

Amendment Record

Issue Details Raiser, Implementer Completed

0.8.0

SPECAM-103: Superseded by the BASE {openehr_base_artefact_identification}[Artefact Identification^] specification, to which the content of this document has been relocated (SPECBASE-50); this document is retained as a pointer. Addresses SPECPR-463.

S Iancu

10 Oct 2026

AM Release 2.3.0

0.7.9

SPECPUB-7: Convert citations to bibtex form.

T Beale

15 Dec 2019

0.7.8

SPECAM-58. Correct errors and improve examples - S Garde review Nov 2018. Change instance_uid to build_uid.

S Garde

18 Nov 2018

AM Release 2.2.0

AM Release 2.1.0

0.7.7

SPECAM-52Improve explanation of version number progression in section 4.2; correct version identifier grammar (addresses SPECPR-254).

E Sundvall

13 Feb 2018

Correct formatting, re-instate Archetype model diagram at start of section 3.

T Beale

28 Jan 2018

0.7.6

SPECAM-41. Correct 'unstable' to 'alpha'; correct version-related typo; update versioning incrementing rules.

S Garde

18 Jun 2017

AM Release 2.0.6

0.7.5

Replace '-unstable' with '-alpha' to be compatible with typical tools.

I McNicoll

01 Feb 2015

0.7.4

Replace '+uNNN' with '-unstable'; simplify the number after 'rc' to an integer build count.

S Garde,
I McNicoll,
H Leslie

29 Sep 2014

0.7.3

Remove build_count, replace with build_uid.

I McNicoll
T Beale

28 May 2014

0.7.2

Change ARCHEYTPE_HRID.commit_number to instance_uid. Build_count reset to 1 on each version change. Adjust diagrams and explanations.

S Garde
I McNicoll
T Beale

21 May 2014

0.7.1

Simplify development state in lifecycle; merge 'initial' and rename 'draft'.

S Garde
I McNicoll

09 May 2014

0.7.0

Rewrite referencing section; update 'problem description; further grammar improvements.

T Beale

20 Jun 2013

0.6.5

Remove errors and ambiguities to do with explanation of human readable identifier; improve nomenclature; rewrite grammar.

T Beale

15 Jun 2013

0.6.0

Major update based on CKM clinical group analysis, and feedback from the CIMI and openEHR communities.

S Garde
H Leslie
I McNicoll
T Beale

21 Apr 2013

0.2.0

Refinements to do with template identification.
Review from Medical Centrum Alkmaar (Netherlands).

T Beale
M van der Meer

01 Feb 2010

0.1.0

Initial Writing.

T Beale

09 Jul 2009