Appendix

Acknowledgements

Primary Author

  • Thomas Beale, Ars Semantica; openEHR Foundation Management Board.

Contributors

This specification has benefited from formal and informal input from the openEHR and wider health informatics community. The openEHR Foundation would like to recognise the following people for their contributions.

  • Patrick Langford, NeuronSong LLC, Utah, USA

  • Claude Nanjo MA African Studies., M Public Health, Cognitive Medical Systems Inc., California, USA

  • Erik Sundvall PhD, Linkoping University, Sweden

Trademarks

  • 'openEHR' is a registered trademark of the openEHR Foundation

  • 'OMG' and 'UML' are registered trademarks of the Object Management Group

Conformance

Conformance of a data or software artifact to an openEHR specification is determined by a formal test of that artifact against the relevant openEHR Implementation Technology Specification(s) (ITSs), such as an IDL interface or an XML-schema. Since ITSs are formal derivations from underlying models, ITS conformance indicates model conformance.

Tooling

The openEHR ADL Workbench (AWB) fully implements this specification, and provide a convenient way of illustrating BMM semantics. The screenshots used in this specification are all from the ADL Workbench. The tool is written in the Eiffel language, and is available as open source on Github. The BMM libraries can be found in the EOMF Github repository.

A modelling tool known as Archie implements BMM in Java, and can be found in the openEHR Github area.

Amendment Record

Issue Details Raiser Completed

LANG Release 1.0.0

2.3.0

SPECLANG-2. Add Basic Meta-Model (BMM) spec to BASE component.

openEHR SEC

04 Sep 2019

Add P_BMM_INDEXED_CONTAINER_TYPE, P_BMM_INDEXED_CONTAINER_PROPERTY to support indexed containers like Hash<K, V>.

T Beale

04 Sep 2019

Add value-set constraint.

T Beale

26 Mar 2019

Separate from main BMM specification;
Support generic types as class ancestors;
add new type P_BMM_BASE_TYPE as parent of P_BMM_SIMPLE_TYPE, P_BMM_GENERIC_TYPE and P_BMM_OPEN_TYPE;
Remove archetype-related schema meta-data.

T Beale

27 Apr 2018

2.2.2

Improve and update introductory text in the Overview section.

E Sundvall,
T Beale

03 Nov 2017

2.2.1

Rename P_BMM_SIMPLE_TYPE_OPEN to P_BMM_OPEN_TYPE;
Rename P_BMM_GENERIC_PARAMETER.create_bmm_generic_parameter_definition to create_bmm_generic_parameter;
Remove inheritance from P_BMM_PACKAGE_CONTAINER to P_BMM_MODEL_ELEMENT;
Make P_BMM_MODEL_ELEMENT abstract;
Correct P_BMM_ENUMERATION.items_names cardinality to multiple;
Constrain P_BMM_GENERIC_PARAMETER.name to one character and upper case.

C Nanjo,
T Beale

02 Mar 2017

2.2.0

Remove class P_BMM_CLASSIFIER.
Add missed inheritance from P_BMM_PROPERTY to P_BMM_MODEL_ELEMENT.

T Beale

20 Jun 2016

Add missing inheritance from P_BMM_SCHEMA to BMM_SCHEMA_CORE.
Correct naming of bmm_xxx_definition, create_bmm_xxx_definition in P_BMM_XXX classes to bmm_xxx, create_bmm_xxx etc.

T Beale

18 Apr 2016

2.1.0

Initial writing based on ADL Workbench implementation.

T Beale

08 Feb 2016