# archetypes & templates

**Category:** [Technical (archive)](https://discourse.openehr.org/c/technical-archive/156)
**Created:** 2004-01-23 10:42 UTC
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**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetypes-templates/15779

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## Post #1 by @Matteo_Piazza

I am a newby in the community of openEHR\. It is not
clear to me the distinction between "archetype" and
"template"\. It seems that a template is based on an
archetype\. Let's start from archetype in fig\. 11, pag\.
26 in REV 2\.2\.1\.
Is it possible to have an example in which the
"new\_value" slot is implemented with a concrete value?
And an example of at least a couple of templates based
on this new defined archetype?
Thank you very much\.

Matteo Piazza

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## Post #2 by @Sam

Matteo

The main documents are on the openEHR website here\.
http://www.openehr.org/archetypes_technical.htm

I have written a paper with others addressing this issue last year\.
http://www.openehr.org/downloads/archetypes/templates_and_archetypes.pdf

I would be interested in knowing if this resolves the issues \- feedback
welcome\.

Cheers, Sam

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