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[Luciana Tricai Cavalini <lutricav@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello MLHIMers,

Next week we will (slowly) start to build CCDs for our projects and the
modeling people are concerned about the fact that there is no place to
register the CCD metadata (what's called the "header" in the openEHR
archetypes), especially the authorship information.

The plan is to have that directly registered on HCKR when the CCD is
about to be commited, what I think it is the best idea, but the fact is
at this point we don't have a functional version of HKCR and that will
take a certain time due to the operational situation of the HKCR project
- basically (IMO), no community enough working on it, what is not
anybody's fault; the project is complex indeed and some ideas are still
taking shape or demanding documentation.

OK, but the CDD project is cruising, and we have a functional version of
CDD, so I can't see any reason for us to delay the development of CCDs
while we wait on HKCR to be up and running.

But I agree with my colleagues that we need to have a provisional
solution for the fact that the CDD doesn't register metadata. I can see
three alternatives:

1) Writing the metadata on a separate file and commit both on a zip file
to the HKCR branch that I will create as a provisional CDD respository
while HKCR is being developed;

2) Creating a new tab on the CDD named "Metadata" and allow people to
fill it up with the metadata there. When HKCR is ready, this Metadata
tab on CDD could be removed.

3) Not doing anything and relying on our memories to remember the
metadata (including authorship) of a given CCD when HKCR is ready.

I vote on (2) because the "separate file" or the "memory" ideas sound to
me like the problem of missing context that the MLHIM and the openEHR
people are trying to solve. Especially the "memory" idea. I am sure I
won't remember the metadata (including authorship) of a CCD that I
modeled 6 months ago. Depending on the person, he/she won't remember
that even 6 weeks or 6 days ago.

But I have the impression that some of us could feel uncomfortable with
the idea (2), so I would like to ask for alternative ideas to solve this
problem of the metadata registration for CCDs while we don't have HKCR
functioning.

Otherwise, if everybody thinks the the idea (2) is the best idea that he
have at this point, I would like to ask permission to edit the CDD 2.1
*.xmt file, including the Metadata tab, according to the Dublin Core
standard, that I think I found on http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.

Thank you,

Luciana.


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