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Today the ART-DECOR Expert Group officially released “Temple”, the second HL7 Template Editor as part of the ART-DECOR tool suite, after intense testing.
In addition to the “regular” graphical Template Editor supporting tabular editing of templates, Temple offers an XML-like editor with extra support with auto-complete functionality for those who are familiar with the HL7’s Templates DSTU and prefer to work with XML-editing rather than a graphical tool. It allows direct manipulation of the underlying definition in XML. It supports content completion, inspection of referenced artefacts, and validation of the definition before saving.
OpenHUB statistics for ART-DECOR 1.0 in a Nutshell: ART-DECOR...
- has had 3,820 commits made by 7 contributors representing 153,227 lines of code
- is mostly written in XSL Transformation with a very well-commented source code
- has a young, but established codebase maintained by a average size development team with stable Y-O-Y commits
- took an estimated 39 years of effort (COCOMO model) starting with its first commit in April, 2012 ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago
Welcome to art-decor.org
DECOR (Data Elements, Codes, OIDs and Rules) is a methodology to capture the data needs of caregivers in terms of datasets and scenarios and use it to generate various artefacts: documentation, value sets, XML instance validation, generation and processing support, and test tools etc.
DECOR allows to iteratively improve recorded data definitions and link together input from various experts with different background knowledge: caregivers, terminologist, modellers, analysts and interface/communication specialists.
Informaticians
Modelers, analysts and interface / communication specialists add the technical representations as e.g. HL7 CDA templates, HL7 FHIR or IHE profiles. During that design phase and also in the following implementation and production phases the tool allows comprehensive validation and testing. |
The underlying DECOR data format is XML. The generation of HTML-, PDF- and Wiki-based documentation and XML-materials like validation and test environments is possible through a release and archive management function and transformations with stylesheets. The technical artefacts like templates and value sets can be used as input for test suites like IHE Gazelle ObjetcsChecker. Easy consistency checks across all artefacts can be achieved, CDA-based template definition can be verified to be standard conformant with the underlying CDA standard.
ART (Advanced Requirement Tooling) is the DECOR user interface to create and adapt DECOR files, and to generate artefacts from DECOR files.
Healthcare Providers, Medical Experts and Researchers |
Terminologists |
Analysts, Modellers and Template Creators |
Vendors and Interface Specialists |