Hello Russ, I am hoping you are be able to help me direct a couple of suggestions to appropriate PCORnet folk.
I think today’s GPC dev call was the first time I saw a link to https://github.com/PCORnet . Would it make sense for https://github.com/CDMFORUM to also live in the same github organization rather than exist separately? The CDM4.0 draft spec includes value sets as an excel workbook appendix. This includes sources for the value sets which is definitely helpful but doesn’t facilitate versioning and change tracking very easily. It would be even better to have them as delimited plain text files in a git repo. Implementation of these value sets into CDM 4.0 datamarts is very likely to identify necessary changes and additions. Plain text format files would allow tracking of changes and also make it trivial to import them as database lookup tables for any CDM build process. This would make it much easier to avoid out of spec values compared to current practice which requires each site to hand transcribe the values sets from the existing documents into ETL code. (I have certainly had such bugs myself). A final spec could reference the value sets as a single immutable github tag/commit while at the same time allowing them to evolve with initial implementation experience. Thank you and best regards, Alex Stoddard Programmer/Analyst Biomedical Informatics Clinical & Translational Science Institute Medical College of Wisconsin astodd...@mcw.edu (414) 805-7239 -------------------------------------------------- UL1 TR001436, TL1 TR001437, KL2 TR001438 CITE it - You can ensure our resources are available for all future research. Simply cite the NIH CTSA. _______________________________________________ Gpc-dev mailing list Gpc-dev@listserv.kumc.edu http://listserv.kumc.edu/mailman/listinfo/gpc-dev
