[!warning] DRAFT - Work In Progress This series is intended to help new openEHR community members navigate the complex world of openEHR tools. It is a work in progress and may contain inaccuracies or outdated information. Please advise the author of any amendments or corrections by replying to the…

I am hoping that once we’ve shown these to SPB members we’ll have a clearer idea of what tooling is available and a nice series of articles, which can be moved to perhaps a Knowledge Hub section of the forum. @SPB you may wish to: proofread and fact-check supply screenshots (would suggest aim for…

Awesome work! I would suggest a 16:9 ratio, as it is more standard than 4:3 IMHO. I think tagging is a good idea. The tags depend highly on the way we want to search or sort things later on. Maybe we should establish a scheme with various categories. For example: lifecycle; In which state is the …

Hi Marcus, This is a good overview and idea. You suggestion with adding tags sounds also useful, handy to have. It is also good to show and filter by it, a sort of multi dimensional categorization. I also second @Martin_Koch suggestions. About the tools itself: I think AWB is not really maintai…

Then there was also what I believe was the first non-Ocean editor, the LiU (Linköping University) archetype editor that made SNOMED CT bindings easier https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:264672/FULLTEXT01.pdf We gave the code to openEHR but maybe it got lost in translation when moving openE…

[image] sebastian.iancu: AWB is not really maintained and I am not aware of active usage other then Thomas or those looking to validate RM|AM<->Archetypes. I might be wrong , but maybe worth asking the current state For quite strange reasons, the AWB had a lot of work done on it while I was i…

I assume EOL means “end of life”? If so will this new partly Kotlin-based function appera in some other tool than AWB? Have you considered transpiling stuff from Kotlin to Javascript so that it is easy to reuse in webapps?

sorry yes - another anglo acronym! The entire back-end is in Kotlin, i.e. BMM parser, builder, validator, AOM parser, builder, validator. So that part can be used in an IntelliJ plugin I have built, i.e. you see all your BMM and ADL files syntax highlighted, and you can ‘run’ and it runs the approp…

To me it really feels as though there is no over-arching organising principle bringing together openEHR tooling, and to some extent it is continuing to get worse, with dozens of individuals working (it seems to me) separately and disconnectedly to create an ever more confusing landscape. No amount o…

[image] marcusbaw: To me it really feels as though there is no over-arching organising principle bringing together openEHR tooling, and to some extent it is continuing to get worse, with dozens of individuals working (it seems to me) separately and disconnectedly to create an ever more confusing…

DRAFT: Archetype Authoring Tools (openEHR Tooling Overview series)

Software Program - open

marcusbaw (Marcus Baw) 27 May 2026 12:29 11

Thanks @thomas.beale for posting that 2019 document. I’ve reposted it in its own topic for discussion because this topic is about Archetype Authoring Tools.

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