# openEHR service specification space

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**Created:** 2009-10-31 09:40 UTC
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**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/openehr-service-specification-space/14398

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## Post #1 by @thomas.beale

I have started to populate the wiki area with some initial service specification material. See [http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/openEHR+Service+Model](http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/spec/openEHR+Service+Model)

This is rough for now, but in the spirit of early collaboration, I thought it would be enough to provide some ideas. The top-level page is just an informal description of basic design ideas, as I see them, and based on what we have learned in our Ocean implementation. Other people will have other ideas, and the intention is for all of us to get to a common point on the identification and overall structure of services, and then on the detailed specifications.

I expect that the service specifications that the various implementers already have will be a fairly important influence on what we define for openEHR, but on the other hand, I also know that (certainly for Ocean) that none of these current implementations is likely to be perfect, since we are always learning....

I thought that it best to get some discussion going within the implementers group first, for obvious reasons, before making any wider announcements.

So... please have a look.

Over the next few weeks, Ocean will post its existing service specifications in appropriate places in the lower pages; I encourage other**s to do so as well.**

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