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> They'll probably need some kind of documented schema, because > for complex schemas, the meaning of some of the markup won't > be [obvious?]. Ann Wrightson gave a talk on HL7 at Extreme a few weeks ago, and I was frankly appalled. The level of abstraction adopted in the encoding of this data is so high that the chance of anyone understanding it who hasn't been immersed in the subject for years is to my mind near zero. The concept of data being human-readable and tags being self-defining has gone completely out of the window. I suspect the "documented schema" in this case is more like 65,000 pages than 6,500 - though I'm guessing. Yet this data (medical records) is exactly what researchers will want to be studying in 50 or 100 years time. Even when the data is being used today, I would think the risk of miscommunications is very high when the data is so complex and un-self-explanatory. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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