Hi everyone, I cautiously send this email as I'm aware that it can be perceived to border on the line between commercial and community, so request if anyone is interested in following through with my idea to email me privately and not use the list any further.
I've been approached by someone requesting an academic CKM instance that could be used for university teaching purposes. So I am curious to see if there was broader interest in establishing a shared academic CKM for use by universities - for academic, non-commercial purposes only. I'm proposing a solution that would operate a little along the lines of the UK CKM, where there are a number of academic entities sharing the same CKM domain instance, but each with their own autonomous subdomains. This could be useful to kickstart some collaborative academic activity between universities in clinical knowledge management. There are pros and cons for this arrangement, which I've tried to outline below: Pros: * All functionality of the standard CKM will be fully available (ie what you currently see on the openEHR CKM) - the library, collaborative portal and governance/distribution capability will be fully enabled, including projects/incubators and running archetype/template reviews. * You would have autonomy within your subdomain (ie effectively a folder or subset of the whole CKM instance) and all of the assets within it. * The price per university would be minimised as the costs in running, maintaining and hosting the CKM instance would be shared by all. * As more universities came on board, potentially the cost of the subdomain based on the shared running costs would be minimised, and the license price would mostly be based on the number of assets in the subdomain ie starting with a minimum of 50, and above that it is based on honest usage. Cons: * If we had multiple universities participating in a single CKM instance who are not coordinating their activity, then I would anticipate that the CKM could become quite a mixed and confused set of models - acceptable perhaps for academic purposes, but not a good basis for implementations, except at subdomain level. * No choice about others who would share your CKM instance. * No control over what activity occurred in other subdomains eg others may upload other archetypes that were similar or potentially conflicting. This is being managed to some degree in the UK instance by the presence of Ian McNicoll, but may not be possible if a widely varied group of academic institutions participate. Coordination between the other subdomain users would be up to all parties voluntarily deciding to work together. I would propose an initial CKM to be in English, although if there was enough interest from a single language group, we could potentially arrange for a number of translated CKMs as well. Please contact me on heather.leslie at oceaninformatics.com<mailto:heather.leslie at oceaninformatics.com> if you have any questions or wish to express interest. I am also planning to attend MIE 2014 in Istanbul next month if anyone wants to discuss this further. Regards Heather Dr Heather Leslie MBBS FRACGP FACHI Director/Consulting Lead Ocean Informatics<http://www.oceaninformatics.com/> Phone - +61 418 966 670 Skype - heatherleslie Twitter - @omowizard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-clinical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20140711/0de55a4d/attachment.html>
