Artefact Identification STABLE
Purpose
The purpose of this document is to describe the identification system for openEHR knowledge artefacts, principally archetypes and templates (including operational templates). This includes artefacts created by any organisation, including the openEHR Foundation, standards bodies, clinical modelling initiatives and government programmes.
The semantics covered include:
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formal human-readable and machine identifiers;
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versioning;
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lifecycle management and states;
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referencing artefacts from elsewhere;
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deal with transfer and forking;
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supporting integrity and non-repudiation.
Unless otherwise stated, in this document, the term 'artefact' refers specifically to these artefact types.
The computable type representing a human-readable identifier, Hrid, is defined as a primitive type in the openEHR Foundation Types specification, and the ARCHETYPE_ID and TEMPLATE_ID types in the openEHR Base Types specification. The present document is the normative source for the grammar and semantics of these identifiers.
Related Documents
Prerequisite documents for reading this document include:
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The openEHR Foundation Types Specification (the
Hridtype). -
The openEHR Base Types Specification (the
ARCHETYPE_IDandTEMPLATE_IDtypes). -
The openEHR Resource Model Specification (descriptive and lifecycle meta-data of authored artefacts).
Related documents include:
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