Hi all,
I was putting together some text for an Appendix on catalogue authoring –similar to the one we have in Appendix A:
The diagram below provides non-normative example of how Catalogue Authors may go about retrieving available Symptom and Prescription types in order to define Syndromes and Protocols.
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Authoring Process:
- Bob (Catalogue Author) wants to define a syndrome and protocol for Fever. He consults the Catalogue and finds the schema used by Symptoms conveying temperature information (added by Symptom Emitters able to emit temperature
data)
- He uses the schema to construct a signature for the Fever Syndrome
- Bob publishes the Syndrome in the Catalogue
- Jane (Catalogue Author) is responsible for defining appropriate Protocols and wants to define one to tackle Fever. She requires a Prescription to tackle Fever that applies one Aspirin if the temperature is between 37.8 –
38.5, and two Aspirins in case it’s above 38.5. She searches for the schema for the arguments expected in order to generate such a Prescription and finds the relevant PrescriptionSchema in the Catalogue (added by Practitioners that can handle such Prescriptions).
- Jane then creates a Protocol with a Directive able to generate the above PrescriptionSchema by extracting Subject and Temperature information from the relevant Symptoms. She adds this Protocol to the Catalogue.
- Jane then goes on to associate this Protocol to the Fever Syndrome.
It needs work still, and missing the actual diagram :-) Comments more than welcomed.
Vivian, since you were to touch the existing diagram, could you have a look at creating one for Catalogue authoring as well?
Thanks,
Stavros