Appendix

Acknowledgements

The work reported in this paper has been funded in by the following organisations:

University College London - Centre for Health Informatics and Multi-professional Education (CHIME);
Ocean Informatics.

Special thanks to David Ingram, Emeritus Professor of Health Informatics at UCL who provided a vision and collegial working environment ever since the days of GEHR (1992).

Trademarks

'openEHR' is a trademark of the openEHR Foundation
'Java' is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation
'Microsoft' and '.Net' are trademarks of the Microsoft Corporation

Amendment Record

Issue Details Raiser, Implementer Completed

Issue	Details	Raiser, Implementer	Completed
BASE Release 1.2.0
1.2.3	SPECPUB-7: Convert citations to bibtex form; SPECBASE-24: Improve specifications block diagram and related explanations in sections 2 and 5.	T Beale	18 Jan 2020
	SPECRM-88. Improve documentation relating to use of `uid` in versioning and `LOCATABLE` descendants in `change_control` package (addresses SPECPR-322).	P Pazos, M Polajnar, T Beale	15 Oct 2019
BASE Release 1.1.0
1.2.2	SPECBASE-21. Update Architecture Overview with new LANG component, and improved explanation of ITS. Improve package structure description. Replace some diagrams.	T Beale	26 Nov 2018
	SPECRM-80. Improve description of `system_id` field in `EHR`, `AUDIT_DETAILS` and `FEEDER_AUDIT_DETAILS`.	H Frankel, T Beale
	SPECRM-78: Improve documentation on 'plain text' EHR URIs.	H Frankel	22 Nov 2018
	SPECBASE-18. Update text in Common IM to latest openPGP specification.	P Pazos	17 May 2018
1.2.1	SPECBASE-16. Update Architecture Overview with current high-level elements. Section 5.3.4: Added text indicating BMM usage and alternatives. Section 11.2.4.2: Added JSON format version of example.	E Sundvall, S Iancu	09 Nov 2017
	SPECBASE-15. Add Foundation Types specification to BASE; SPECBASE-7. Add Base Types specification to BASE. SPECBASE-16. Update Architecture Overview with current high-level elements. Section 2: Updated overview diagram and description to be based on 'components' as per current specifications program; Section 5: Updated package diagrams to exported diags from BASE, RM, AM, SM UML components; Section 7.4.1: small updates to statements to make them more current; fixed some references to ISO standards.	T Beale	09 Sep 2017
BASE Release 1.0.3
1.2.0	SPECRM-33. Clarify specification of DV_EHR_URI scheme. (solves SPECPR-48, SPECPR-50)	H Frankel, E Sundvall, B Lah, S Iancu	07 Dec 2015
	SPECRM-27. Relax unique name rule in `LOCATABLE`: change text of sections 11.2.2 and 11.2.4.	H Frankel, T Beale
	SPECRM-25. Corrections to Architecture Overview specification: text in section 9.2.2 about `LOCATABLE_REF` referred to wrong specification.	T Beale
	SPECRM-28. Corrections to EHR and Common IM documentation. SPECPR-2. Changes to Architecture Overview section 5.2.1.	R Erens
Release 1.0.2
1.1.1	SPEC-249. Paths and locators minor errors in Architecture Overview and Common IM. Typos corrected in sections 9.2.2 and 11.3.	C Ma, T Beale R Chen	13 Nov 2008
	SPEC-257: Correct minor typos and clarify text. Section 9.2.1 para 1 line 2: with -→ within.	C Ma, R Chen, T Cook
	SPEC-284: Correct inconsistencies in naming of `term_definitions`, `constraint_definitions`, `term_bindings`, `constraint_bindings` attributes in XML-schema and specifications.	A Torrisi
Release 1.0.1
1.1	SPEC-200: Correct package names in RM diagram.	D Lloyd	12 Apr 2007
	SPEC-130: Correct security details in `LOCATABLE` and `ARCHETYPED` classes.	T Beale
	SPEC-203: Release 1.0 explanatory text improvements. Improved path explanation. Slight re-ordering of main headings.	T Beale G Grieve T Shannon H van der Linden
	Path shortcuts.	H Frankel
	Added configuration management and versioning material from Common IM. Added section on ontological landscape. Added section on aims. Added section on systems architectures. Added section on security. Added section on system integration.	T Beale
	Added section on terminology.	T Beale S Heard
Release 1.0
1.0	Initial Writing - content taken from Roadmap document. SPEC-147. Make `DIRECTORY` Re-usable SPEC-167. Move AOM description package to `resource` package in Common IM. SPEC-185. Improved EVENT model.	T Beale	29 Jan 2006

BASE Release 1.2.0

1.2.3

SPECPUB-7: Convert citations to bibtex form;
SPECBASE-24: Improve specifications block diagram and related explanations in sections 2 and 5.

T Beale

18 Jan 2020

SPECRM-88. Improve documentation relating to use of uid in versioning and LOCATABLE descendants in change_control package (addresses SPECPR-322).

P Pazos,
M Polajnar,
T Beale

15 Oct 2019

BASE Release 1.1.0

1.2.2

SPECBASE-21. Update Architecture Overview with new LANG component, and improved explanation of ITS. Improve package structure description. Replace some diagrams.

T Beale

26 Nov 2018

SPECRM-80. Improve description of system_id field in EHR, AUDIT_DETAILS and FEEDER_AUDIT_DETAILS.

H Frankel,
T Beale

SPECRM-78: Improve documentation on 'plain text' EHR URIs.

H Frankel

22 Nov 2018

SPECBASE-18. Update text in Common IM to latest openPGP specification.

P Pazos

17 May 2018

1.2.1

SPECBASE-16. Update Architecture Overview with current high-level elements. Section 5.3.4: Added text indicating BMM usage and alternatives. Section 11.2.4.2: Added JSON format version of example.

E Sundvall, S Iancu

09 Nov 2017

SPECBASE-15. Add Foundation Types specification to BASE;
SPECBASE-7. Add Base Types specification to BASE.
SPECBASE-16. Update Architecture Overview with current high-level elements.
Section 2: Updated overview diagram and description to be based on 'components' as per current specifications program;
Section 5: Updated package diagrams to exported diags from BASE, RM, AM, SM UML components;
Section 7.4.1: small updates to statements to make them more current; fixed some references to ISO standards.

T Beale

09 Sep 2017

BASE Release 1.0.3

1.2.0

SPECRM-33. Clarify specification of DV_EHR_URI scheme. (solves SPECPR-48, SPECPR-50)

H Frankel,
E Sundvall,
B Lah,
S Iancu

07 Dec 2015

SPECRM-27. Relax unique name rule in LOCATABLE: change text of sections 11.2.2 and 11.2.4.

H Frankel,
T Beale

SPECRM-25. Corrections to Architecture Overview specification: text in section 9.2.2 about LOCATABLE_REF referred to wrong specification.

T Beale

SPECRM-28. Corrections to EHR and Common IM documentation.
SPECPR-2. Changes to Architecture Overview section 5.2.1.

R Erens

Release 1.0.2

1.1.1

SPEC-249. Paths and locators minor errors in Architecture Overview and Common IM. Typos corrected in sections 9.2.2 and 11.3.

C Ma,
T Beale
R Chen

13 Nov 2008

SPEC-257: Correct minor typos and clarify text. Section 9.2.1 para 1 line 2: with -→ within.

C Ma,
R Chen,
T Cook

SPEC-284: Correct inconsistencies in naming of term_definitions, constraint_definitions, term_bindings, constraint_bindings attributes in XML-schema and specifications.

A Torrisi

Release 1.0.1

1.1

SPEC-200: Correct package names in RM diagram.

D Lloyd

12 Apr 2007

SPEC-130: Correct security details in LOCATABLE and ARCHETYPED classes.

T Beale

SPEC-203: Release 1.0 explanatory text improvements. Improved path explanation. Slight re-ordering of main headings.

T Beale
G Grieve
T Shannon
H van der Linden

Path shortcuts.

H Frankel

Added configuration management and versioning material from Common IM.
Added section on ontological landscape.
Added section on aims.
Added section on systems architectures.
Added section on security.
Added section on system integration.

T Beale

Added section on terminology.

T Beale
S Heard

Release 1.0

1.0

Initial Writing - content taken from Roadmap document.
SPEC-147. Make DIRECTORY Re-usable
SPEC-167. Move AOM description package to resource package in Common IM.
SPEC-185. Improved EVENT model.

T Beale

29 Jan 2006