Description
At today's meeting of the Reference Information Model (RIM) Subcommittee, the members continued their discussion to determine what components of the Customer Information Quality (CIQ) xPIL schema are needed for use in EDXL standards and for inclusion in a CIQ subschema. Specifically, the members discussed and decided to include organization and organization id attributes, to use 2-letter UN LOCODES, and to give preference to utilizing most well-recognized and best maintained external standards.
The CIQ xPIL standard and related schemas provide a comprehensive set of attributes and elements for representing many aspects of an organization. A basic portion of the organizational information is needed in various EDXL standards and the CIQ xPIL standard is used currently in the EDXL Hospital Availability standard. The complete CIQ capabilities go beyond the requirements for the EDXL standards. Although most CIQ fields are optional, since many extraneous elements and attributes could be present, a robust EDXL parser needs to be prepared to handle those fields which unnecessarily complicates the EDXL parsers. The complexity also presents a challenge to adoption and education efforts. Also the use of attributes throughout the CIQ standards is more appropriate for database applications as opposed to the information exchange focus of the EDXL standards. For these reasons, a limited subset of the CIQ xPIL should be defined as a profile for use in EDXL.
