Stream: Profiling Academy
Topic: What to call very constricted profiles?
Rebecka Hansson (Oct 03 2018 at 08:27):
Hi! My name is Rebecka and I am studying Medical engineering at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden. I have just started my master thesis which is focused on FHIR and specifically the opportunities of FHIR profiling in Sweden. I will for example discuss profiles on a national level and profiles on more organizational levels. I came across the term tight and loose profiles. To me, a tight profile would be a profile which is very constricted and would be hard to create derived profiles from since there is not much room for more constrictions. My question is, does the terms tight and loose for describing profiles exist or are there other terms that would be better to use for this purpose?
Michel Rutten (Oct 03 2018 at 14:28):
These terms are not explicitly defined in the FHIR spec, but used informally. Sometimes I'll say "strict profile" vs "relaxed profile".
Rebecka Hansson (Oct 04 2018 at 07:43):
Perfect! Thank you for your help.
Michel Rutten (Oct 04 2018 at 13:07):
No problem.
Mark Kramer (May 05 2019 at 23:43):
Is “looseness” or “tightness” measurable? If not, it is useless to talk about it.
Michel Rutten (May 06 2019 at 15:24):
You can certainly measure optionality/strictness by inspecting element cardinalities etc.
Mark Kramer (May 07 2019 at 10:15):
I don’t think so. Cardinality by itself isn’t looseness. It reflects how many things exist in the world, relative to other things.
Michel Rutten (May 07 2019 at 14:00):
I was thinking about e.g. counting elements constrained to 0...0 or 1...1 (removing optionality)
Michel Rutten (May 07 2019 at 14:00):
And some other attributes that we could measure.
Michel Rutten (May 07 2019 at 14:01):
But I agree, this is quite fuzzy and not a strict definition.
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