Re: Clinical documents metadata

2013-11-14 Thread Gray, Alasdair J G
Hi Tim, Completely agree with your criticism about the lack of controlled vocabularies in the actual proposal, but in someways that is a technical detail. What I found interesting was the argument for all mandatory fields to enable the use case that they were supporting, viz search. Alasdair

Re: Clinical documents metadata

2013-11-14 Thread Timothy W. Cook
Interesting. But kind of 1990's all over again. Metadata requirements are generalized and very well defined for electronic documentation. Dr. Benson doesn't specify any type of controlled vocabulary nor even a datatype for any item except date/time. Dublin Core is well accepted and used through

Clinical documents metadata

2013-11-14 Thread Gray, Alasdair J G
Hi All, This is an interesting blog post about metadata requirements for clinical documents. http://abiesuk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/metadata-for-clinical-documents-and.html I particularly like the distinction of use cases at the start which motivate the metadata requirements that are identifie