Chet, Yes, we are currently working on “Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) Hospital AVailability Exchange (HAVE) Version 2.0 Working Draft 02” – toward a committee draft. The only question on the table to you is: Can we use the schema to automatically generate the data dictionary? The output is in a little different format than past standards (better in my opinion for many reasons). So is that OK? Darrell sent you a comparison between the past manual “table style” data dictionary vs. how this new output would display. You saw my points iterating the reasons/benefits. This is just a data dictionary format question. Thanks, Tim __________________________________________________________ From: emergency-have@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:emergency-have@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Chet Ensign Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 5:56 PM To: Elysa Jones Cc: Darrell O'Donnell; HAVE SC Subject: Re: [emergency-have] HAVE 2.0 - Data Dictionary On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Elysa Jones <elysajones@yahoo.com> wrote: Chet, This is not at all a new work. This evolved from a 1.0 that was used in Haiti after the earthquake. Lessons learned and other inputs were gathered into a working draft of 2.0 that has been in development for over a year. The working draft, aka WD09 has been used in experiments and field trials. We are anxious to get this in hands of implementers because it is so much improved over the 1.0. We are not asking to bypass any process as we will have a fully developed draft ready for EM-TC review and vote in the next few weeks. The question asked of you here is whether we are ok to use this method of generating the data dictionary for both expediency and correctness. It does not fit the normal OASIS template we use and need your guidance in that regard. Thanks, Elysa Jones, Chair OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee Emergency Interoperability Member Section From: emergency-have@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:emergency-have@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Chet Ensign Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:50 PM To: Darrell O'Donnell Cc: Elysa Jones; HAVE SC Subject: Re: [emergency-have] HAVE 2.0 - Data Dictionary Elysa, Darrell, let me just be sure I understand your objective here. The potential social / healthcare benefit is not lost on me so you have no selling to do on that score. I read "The Hot Zone" years ago. Ebola is ample justification for swift action. If I understand what you want to do, your goal is to approve and publish a Committee Spec Draft of the EDXL-HAVE Data Dictionary as fast as possible so that people have a public version of this refined spec to apply to the Ebola outbreak. - Do you simply want to get it online as an approved CSD of some kind (details we need to work out) or do you also want to move it forward into public review? Thanks for your answers. I'm just trying to sort out in my mind how we can best accomplish this. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Darrell O'Donnell <darrell.odonnell@continuumloop.com> wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Elysa Jones <elysajones@yahoo.com> wrote: Chet, Please review this process for an auto-generated data dictionary. We are working diligently to get a PR draft out for HAVE given the interest due to the Ebola situation. This method would save us time as well as minimize/eliminate the common mistakes made when it is done manually. Thanks, Elysa Jones, Chair OASIS Emergency Management Technical Committee Emergency Interoperability Member Section Elysa From: emergency-have@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:emergency-have@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Darrell O'Donnell Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:00 AM To: HAVE SC Cc: Chet Ensign Subject: [emergency-have] HAVE 2.0 - Data Dictionary Folks - as we discussed in the EDXL-HAVE SC meeting this afternoon we would like to use a different format for the Data Dictionary section of the standards document. I have CC'ed Chet Ensign from the TC Admin as per Elysa's recommendation. The approach that I recommend and that we agreed upon was to use an auto-generated document that is driven from the data in our XML Schema. This would mean that there should be no errors (barring a software glitch in OxygenXML) but there are a couple of issues to consider: 1. I can't generate a Word-compatible version so we can't cut and paste the content into the .docx standard file. I proposed that we would include the full PDF (sample attached) as an appendix and reference it in the Data Dictionary. This would need approval from the TC Admin for the format. 2. There may be come formatting issues. If you look at the attached PDF, there are a few images that go beyond the page (e.g. see page 8). We can make a fully browse-able website version available too though - it doesn't have that problem. Here is a screenshot comparing a draft (ignore the highlights on the left side please) with the normal table and the generated XML Schema documentation on the right. I believe all of the fields and information that we need is there and it includes a pretty good diagram. We'll have the ERM diagram as well (thanks to Patti!) and the rest is coming along well. Thanks a ton for the great meeting. I'll send out the draft minutes in a moment.
Darrell O'Donnell, P.Eng. OASIS EM-TC HAVE SC - Co-Chair
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