The Library resource is a general-purpose container for knowledge asset definitions. It can be used to describe and expose exist knowledge assets such as logic libraries and information model descriptions, as well as to describe a collection of knowledge assets.

An absolute URL that is used to identify this library when it is referenced. This SHALL be a URL, SHOULD be globally unique, and SHOULD be an address at which this library is (or will be) published.

Allows the library to be referenced by a single globally unique identifier.

A logical identifier for the library such as the CMS or NQF identifiers for a measure artifact. Note that at least one identifier is required for non-experimental active artifacts.

Allows external business identifiers to be easily associated with the library.

The version of the library, if any. To provide a version consistent with the Decision Support Service specification, use the format Major.Minor.Revision (e.g. 1.0.0). For more information on versioning knowledge assets, refer to the Decision Support Service specification. Note that a version is required for non-experimental active artifacts.

Allows for versioning of the content of the library.

A machine-friendly name for the library. This name should be usable as an identifier for the library by machine processing applications such as code generation.

Simplifies machine-processing tasks related to the library such as code-generation or logging.

This identifier for the library should be unique within the intended scope of use, and should conform to the traditional syntactic definition of an identifier within most programming languages. regex: ([A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]*).

A short, descriptive, user-friendly title for the library.

Identifies the type of library such as a Logic Library, Model Definition, Asset Collection, or Module Definition.

The status of the library.

Enables tracking the life-cycle of the content of the library.

Determines whether the library was developed for testing purposes (or education/evaluation/marketing), and is not intended to be used in production environments.

Enables experimental content to be developed following the same life-cycle as a production-level library would.

A free text natural language description of the library from the consumer's perspective.

This description can be used to capture details such as why the library was built, comments about misuse, instructions for clinical use and interpretation, literature references, examples from the paper world, etc. It is not a rendering of the library as conveyed in the text field of the resource itself. This item SHOULD be populated unless the information is available from context.

A brief description of the purpose of the library.

This description should address the question of why this library was built, though not necessarily in as much detail as the justification, rationale, or clinical recommendation statement of a measure would. That information would typically be provided in the related resource element.

A detailed description of how the library is used from a clinical perspective.

The date on which the library was published.

The date on which the library content was last reviewed.

The period during which the library content is effective.

The effective period for a library determines when the content is applicable for usage and is independent of publication and review dates. For example, a measure intended to be used for the year 2016 would be published in 2015.

Specifies various attributes of the patient population for whom and/or environment of care in which, the library is applicable.

Consumers of the library must be able to determine the intended applicability for the library. Ideally, this information would be used programmatically to determine when and how it should be incorporated or exposed.

Clinical topics related to the content of the library.

Repositories must be able to determine how to categorize the library so that it can be found by topical searches.

A contributor to the content of the library, including authors, editors, reviewers, and endorsers.

Consumers of the content must be able to quickly determine who contributed to the content of the library.

The name of the individual or organization that published the library (also known as the steward for the library). This information is required for non-experimental active artifacts.

Consumers of the library must be able to determine where to obtain support in the use of this library, as well as where to direct questions and concerns about the content.

The publisher (or steward) of the library is the organization or individual primarily responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the library. This is not necessarily the same organization that developed and initially authored the content. The publisher is the primary point of contact for questions or issues with the library.

Contact details to assist a user in finding and communicating with the publisher.

A copyright statement relating to the library and/or its contents. Copyright statements are generally legal restrictions on the use and publishing of the library.

Consumers of the library must be able to determine any legal restrictions on the use of the library and/or its content.

Related resources such as additional documentation, justification, or bibliographic references.

Libraries must be able to provide enough information for consumers of the content (and/or interventions or results produced by the content) to be able to determine and understand the justification for and evidence in support of the content.

Each related resource is either an attachment, or a reference to another resource, but not both.

The parameter element defines parameters used by the library.

Describes a set of data that must be provided in order to be able to successfully perform the computations defined by the library.

The content of the library as an Attachment. The content may be a reference to a url, or may be directly embedded as a base-64 string. Either way, the contentType of the attachment determines how to interpret the content.