Thomas I managed the Central Queensland University’s Health Informatics Research Centre and Sebastian was one of my Post Doc Fellows. Sam was one of our Adjunct Professors. I retired December 2007 and CQU decided to close down the research centre. That’s when Sam stepped in and employed Sebastian to ensure his work could continue as he was very impressed with the original prototype of the CKM. Heather was also working for Ocean at that time and began her modeling career.
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Indeed I had forgotten the date and details of the tool migration. We need a graphical history of CKM’s timeline 
Such a pivotal project and crucial human connections, Evelyn. I did not know that Sebastien was originally your post doc! Very well done, from one who, like you, took on the career suicide potential of creating and protecting our field through many years in the sharp-elbowed corridors of academia, through the evolving information age! And battling there to widen and make whole the central role of health informatics for the fragmenting and increasingly burdened communities delivering health and care services. Everyone knew things had to change for the better but battled (as ambitious academics and doctors best knew how :sweat_smile) to preserve their place in the order of things. You were perhaps a little mad (like me, my doctor children think!) to take it on, but we were lucky and won more than we lost, for sure! I have my original emails and working papers written with Sam and Dipak, alongside Thomas, in establishing and announcing the first openEHR Foundation clinical programme (December 2005) and its planned governance, drafted by Dipak. You were there, alongside Alain Maskens, Martin Severs and Alan Rector, but it was CKM that really enabled things to get moving, with Heather’s and later Silje’s and Ian’s drive and commitment and many many others - a difficult commercial/community balancing act for Ocean that that inevitably was. Thankyou and well done, everyone, again. Floreat CKM!
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David I learned about openEHR from Peter Schloefel at the IT/14 committee when we were working on a some new ISO standards, EHR definition and one on architecture. I developed a course on EHR & Standards which was based on that and HL7. We began working with archetypes in 2004. We were working on how to teach people how to develop them. That’s when we realised we needed a repository. We designed an ontological structure and made use of OWL. One of our exchange students had the idea to develop a mind map so that Clinicians would be able to view it in a more meaningful way.
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Such important formative ideas and work, you describe Evelyn. If you still have documents from these early projects, I’d love to add them to my archive. The rollcall of openEHR leaders and pioneers is now many hundreds strong, thanks to this and the intervening decades of hard work and sheer staying power.
Re Peter S, I recall meeting him first when a visiting professor in Adelaide and attending a HISA meeting in Melbourne, and then, a year or so later, when invited to give a keynote at HISA in 1999, where exploratory EU projects creating clinical systems based on two-level modelling and what we were then calling clinical data objects were described. He teamed up with Sam to create Ocean, I recall, and did a great job in promoting GEHR/openEHR results in the international standards domain, much as Dipak and David Lloyd then did from UCL. Sam has played a heroic role in bridging these multiple activities between Europe and Australia. Peter had to drop out from our emerging openEHR community sometime later, as did Dipak, sadly.
Great to hear from you here - onwards and upwards, despite our years!
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