Robert Cary Leif Ph.D. This schema is derived from a copyrighted schema from The HR-XML Consortium. All Rights Reserved. http://www.hr-xml.org Name: PersonName.xsd Status: Recommendation Date this version: http://ns.hr-xml.org/2004-08-02 Purpose: Defines the schema for PersonName Author(s): Paul Kiel, Kim Bartkus, CPO Workgroup Documentation: PersonName.html Terms of license can be found in license.txt. From original schema:http://ns.hr-xml.org/2004-08-02 This schema includes the elements that are necessary to describe a person's name. This is a DRAFT proposal that has not been formally tested to comply with the W3C XML schema version 1.0 specification. No position is taken in respect to whether a particular software implementing this schema works according to medical or other regulations. Draft Attention is called to the possibility that implementation of this specification may require use of subject matter covered by patent rights. By publication of this standard, no position is taken with respect to the existence or validity of any patent rights in connection therewith. Newport Instruments shall not be responsible for identifying patents or patent applications for which a license may be required to implement a standard or for conducting inquiries into the legal validity or scope of those patents that are brought to its attention. Copyright 2002-2008 Newport Instruments. One print or electronic copy may be made for personal use only. Systematic or multiple reproduction, distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means, or duplication of any material in this document for a fee or for commercial purposes require permission of the copyright holder. For all other uses, please contact Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. at rleif@rleif.com Since this is, at present, a research project, this schema should not be used in a medical device." Supported by Newport Instruments internal development funds. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of any governmental or private organization. Revised 5 Jan 2008 to include the about.xsd information as an XML page. Revised 18 march 2005 by Robert C. Leif, Ph.D to remove all xsd:, make changes proposed for next version, and to localized the schema to its present directory. In an attempt to simplify the structure of Person_Name_Type, the helper types which are declared in the Person_Name_Type sequence have been removed from and placed ahead of it. See about.xsd on the inclusion of id attributes. Definitions from Microsoft® Encarta® Reference Library 2004, Given Name is the name or names that somebody is given at birth or baptism in addition to the family name. Legal Name should be the name of the person at the time of the use of this schema. Formatted Name presumably refers to the proper format for a name. Since formating should be performed outside of the schema, I suggest that this element might not be included in the restricted types based on Person_Name_Type. The prefix Bd is an abbreviation for bounded. Bd#_Types are strings with the number of characters ranging from minLength to MaxLength. This permits either European-American or Asiatic- Hungarian order to be specified. In the case of suffixes, which often do not exist, the alternatiove of 0 characters makes sense. Null is another possibility In some case, it may the attributes may be of use. Their Generation by the transformation of the schema into the XML document was stopped by prohibiting their use. Affix_Type has been split into Prefix_Type and both qualification and Generation have been added as separate elements to Person_Name_Type. Each of these types could be defined as a union of a choice and a string. Since this schema is subject to subsequent restriction, the string types have not been restricted. The Prefix_Species_Type has been made global in order to permit types that use this type as an attribute can be extended or restricted. This is very close to the Human Resorce definition except that affix has been split into 3 parts. The DICOM format for Person Name will be added in the DICOM schema. From the Wikipedia: "A given name, Christian name or forename is a personal name which specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name (surname). A given name is a name given to a person, as opposed to an inherited one such as a family name." Given name is the nick name, which may be useful information for the patients. If a last name is hyphenated, the hyphen should be included with the first half. The order of the names has not been specified because it will be decided by a style-sheet and/or the attribute Name_Order. Given name is the nick name, which may be useful information for the patients. If a last name is hyphenated, the hyphen should be included with the first half.