Stream: implementers
Topic: Access to Resource Spreadsheets
Simone Heckmann (May 24 2016 at 13:50):
How can I access (read-only) the spreadsheed representations of the standard resources. I suppose, they're on github somewhere...?
Eric Haas (May 24 2016 at 13:52):
they are on svn in the source folder
Grahame Grieve (May 24 2016 at 21:33):
why do you need them? whatever the reason, The structure definitions are a much better place to work from
Lloyd McKenzie (May 26 2016 at 22:53):
We don't promise to keep using the spreadsheets or to use them in the same way. The structureDefinitions we'll at least document what we change and maybe even provide conversion code . . . (Plus Excel sucks as a file format :))
Gaston Fiore (May 27 2016 at 00:16):
@Grahame Grieve and @Lloyd McKenzie , I'm still using the Excel spreadsheets to make changes to the specs. What alternative method do you suggest that I use instead? Is there documentation somewhere? I was telling @Josh Mandel a few weeks ago that indeed working with the Excel spreadsheets was somewhat painful. Thanks!
Lloyd McKenzie (May 27 2016 at 02:59):
If you're maintaining the specs, the spreadsheets are the proper mechanism. If you're creating profiles, we're encouraging people to start using Forge, though there are few things it can't do yet. However, if you're building tools driven from the specs (as seemed to be the case for @Simone Heckmann 's "read only" request, you should use the JSON or XML conformance resource representations, not the spreadsheets.
Andy Stechishin (May 27 2016 at 03:16):
You can access individual resource definitions as you require (if you do not wish to download the entire set). For instance the JSON structure definition for Patient for the release that was frozen for the Montreal connectathon can be retrieved from: http://hl7.org/fhir/2016May/patient.profile.json
The version from the current CI build of the same resource can be found at: http://hl7-fhir.github.io/patient.profile.json
Gaston Fiore (May 27 2016 at 11:53):
Thanks! I am indeed maintaining the specs, those related to clinical genomics. @Lloyd McKenzie , please keep me posted if the spreadsheet workflow changes at some point.
Simone Heckmann (May 28 2016 at 07:08):
Thanks, all. I had a question from people who wanted to compare their own internal datastructures to FHIR and asked for spreadsheed representation of resources to get started.
Grahame Grieve (May 28 2016 at 11:37):
interesting, ta. I'll think about that use case
Lloyd McKenzie (May 28 2016 at 14:52):
So the real desire is for a "table" view that you can suck into a spreadsheet? I can see that being nice, but I'm not sure we want to point people to the source files.
Grahame Grieve (May 29 2016 at 10:01):
say, like this: http://hl7-fhir.github.io/hspc/encounter-hspcgen-review.xls ?
Erich Schulz (May 29 2016 at 10:12):
@Simone Heckmann the website is pretty accessable - have they looked at some of the resources here: http://hl7.org/fhir/downloads.html
Erich Schulz (May 29 2016 at 10:13):
I ended up writing a little parser on the JSON definition after I found myself about to cut and paste and hand craft some transformations I needed to get the FHIR definitions to play nice with the tool I'm using as an ORM
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