Kitchen-sink standards & the Structure Document Complexity Metric

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I like the notion of the Structure Document Complexity Metric
mentioned in this column:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/usage_schemas_to_tame_odf_and.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/05/metrics_for_xml_projects_5_str_1.html

could it be relevant to patient record documents?

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Usage schemes come close to archetypes.
Both constrain or kind of constrain an underlying model.
Kitchen sink model in their case or a concise model of a dossier as is the case in openEHR.

With one big difference:
Archetypes are defined/expressed on the basis of an Archetype Model.

Gerard

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I'm not sure whether these are relevant. When I last looked
at them, they seemed trapped between measuring the real
informational complexity of the domain, the artificial
complexity of the modeling of the domain, and the cosmetic
complexity of the schema. So I couldn't see that they were
useful to me in trying to assess the complexity of the
hl7 v3 schemas, for instance - and I think this would apply
to openEHR to - the extract format should count as fairly
simple, given that most of the actual modeling is contained
in a layer above the schema.

Grahame

Gavin Brelstaff wrote:

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Grahame,

I agree.

Gerard

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