Stream: committers
Topic: NamingSystem.name
Rik Smithies (Nov 09 2021 at 17:35):
This is described as "Name for this naming system (computer friendly)".
What does computer friendly mean?
Examples given elsewhere in the resource are:
<name value="SNOMED CT (IHTSDO)"/>
<name value="UCUM: (UnitsOfMeasure.org)"/>
<name value="NCI Metathesaurus"/>
<name value="ISO 2 letter Country Codes"/>
and they just look like normal language.
"computer friendly", although basically meaningless, may nevertheless lead people to use "NAMES_LIKE_THIS".
Grahame Grieve (Nov 09 2021 at 18:30):
all of those are appropriate for title, and NAME_LIKE_THIS would be appropriate , though I think NameLikeThis is better
Rik Smithies (Nov 09 2021 at 19:29):
Ah so title is new in R5, thanks.
The longer description of name still says it is "natural language" however, which seems to be the opposite of "computer friendly" :-)
I guess name is like an identifier, and title (in R5) is the short name - for humans.
And in R4 name is stuck between being an identifier and the title, but it will become less like the title in R5.
Grahame Grieve (Nov 09 2021 at 19:53):
I think it was new in R3
Grahame Grieve (Nov 09 2021 at 19:53):
no change to these definitions in R5 - just we're tardy in getting it right
Richard Townley-O'Neill (Nov 10 2021 at 04:27):
once upon a time computer friendly suggested no internal spaces and suitable for Java in some way.
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