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Logical Model: Core Data Element (DAK)

Official URL: http://smart.who.int/base/StructureDefinition/CoreDataElement Version: 0.3.0
Active as of 2026-10-20 Computable Name: CoreDataElement

Logical Model for representing Core Data Elements from a DAK. A core data element can be one of: a ValueSet, a CodeSystem, a ConceptMap, or a Logical Model adherent to SGLogicalModel. This is the ONE EXCEPTION to allowing FHIR R4 models into the DAK LMs.

Usages:

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NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: doco
CoreDataElement 0..* Base Core Data Element (DAK)
CoreDataElement.type 1..1 code Type
Binding: Core Data Element Type Value Set (required)
CoreDataElement.canonical 1..1 uri Canonical
CoreDataElement.id 0..1 id Element ID
CoreDataElement.description[x] 0..1 Description
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionString string
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionUri uri

doco Documentation for this format

Terminology Bindings

Path Status Usage ValueSet Version Source
CoreDataElement.type Base required Core Data Element Type Value Set 📦0.3.0 This IG

API Information

Core Data Element (DAK) API

Logical Model for representing Core Data Elements from a DAK. A core data element can be one of: a ValueSet, a CodeSystem, a ConceptMap, or a Logical Model adherent to SGLogicalModel. This is the ONE EXCEPTION to allowing FHIR R4 models into the DAK LMs.

Version: 1.0.0

Endpoints

GET /StructureDefinition-CoreDataElement.schema.json

JSON Schema definition for the Logical Model StructureDefinition-CoreDataElement

This endpoint serves the JSON Schema definition for the Logical Model StructureDefinition-CoreDataElement.

Schema Definition

StructureDefinition-CoreDataElement

Description: Logical Model for representing Core Data Elements from a DAK. A core data element can be one of: a ValueSet, a CodeSystem, a ConceptMap, or a Logical Model adherent to SGLogicalModel. This is the ONE EXCEPTION to allowing FHIR R4 models into the DAK LMs.

Type: object

Full Schema (JSON)

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "http://smart.who.int/base/StructureDefinition-CoreDataElement.schema.json",
  "title": "Core Data Element (DAK)",
  "description": "Logical Model for representing Core Data Elements from a DAK. A core data element can be one of: a ValueSet, a CodeSystem, a ConceptMap, or a Logical Model adherent to SGLogicalModel. This is the ONE EXCEPTION to allowing FHIR R4 models into the DAK LMs.",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "resourceType": {
      "type": "string",
      "const": "CoreDataElement",
      "description": "Resource type identifier for CoreDataElement logical model"
    },
    "@context": {
      "description": "JSON-LD context for this logical model with ValueSet vocabularies",
      "anyOf": [
        {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri",
          "description": "URI reference to external JSON-LD context"
        },
        {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Inline JSON-LD context",
          "properties": {
            "@version": {
              "type": "number",
              "const": 1.1
            },
            "fhir": {
              "type": "string",
              "const": "http://hl7.org/fhir/"
            }
          },
          "additionalProperties": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uri"
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Array of JSON-LD context objects/URIs",
          "items": {
            "anyOf": [
              {
                "type": "string",
                "format": "uri"
              },
              {
                "type": "object"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    "@type": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "JSON-LD type identifier for CoreDataElement logical model",
      "examples": [
        "LogicalModel-CoreDataElement"
      ]
    },
    "type": {
      "oneOf": [
        {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Code from ValueSet CoreDataElementTypeVS (plain string)"
        },
        {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Code from ValueSet CoreDataElementTypeVS (JSON-LD structure)",
          "properties": {
            "@type": {
              "type": "string",
              "const": "http://smart.who.int/base/ValueSet-CoreDataElementTypeVS.jsonld",
              "description": "JSON-LD type reference to ValueSet CoreDataElementTypeVS"
            },
            "@id": {
              "type": "string",
              "format": "uri",
              "description": "Full IRI of the code from ValueSet CoreDataElementTypeVS"
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "@type",
            "@id"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      ],
      "description": "Type of core data element: valueset, codesystem, conceptmap, or logicalmodel"
    },
    "canonical": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri",
      "description": "Canonical URI/IRI pointing to the ValueSet, CodeSystem, ConceptMap, or Logical Model definition"
    },
    "id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Identifier for the core data element"
    },
    "description[x]": {
      "oneOf": [
        {
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri"
        }
      ],
      "description": "Description of the core data element - either Markdown content or a URI to a Markdown file (absolute or relative to repository root)"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "resourceType",
    "type",
    "canonical"
  ],
  "resourceDefinition": "http://smart.who.int/base/StructureDefinition/CoreDataElement",
  "fhir:parent": "http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Base",
  "jsonld:valuesets": [
    "CoreDataElementTypeVS"
  ],
  "jsonld:contextTemplate": {
    "@version": 1.1,
    "fhir": "http://hl7.org/fhir/",
    "CoreDataElementTypeVS": "http://smart.who.int/base/ValueSet-CoreDataElementTypeVS.jsonld"
  }
}

This documentation is automatically generated from the OpenAPI specification.

This structure is derived from Base

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: doco
CoreDataElement 0..* Base Core Data Element (DAK)
CoreDataElement.type 1..1 code Type
Binding: Core Data Element Type Value Set (required)
CoreDataElement.canonical 1..1 uri Canonical
CoreDataElement.id 0..1 id Element ID
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionString string
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionUri uri

doco Documentation for this format

Terminology Bindings (Differential)

Path Status Usage ValueSet Version Source
CoreDataElement.type Base required Core Data Element Type Value Set 📦0.3.0 This IG
NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: doco
CoreDataElement 0..* Base Core Data Element (DAK)
CoreDataElement.type 1..1 code Type
Binding: Core Data Element Type Value Set (required)
CoreDataElement.canonical 1..1 uri Canonical
CoreDataElement.id 0..1 id Element ID
CoreDataElement.description[x] 0..1 Description
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionString string
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionUri uri

doco Documentation for this format

Terminology Bindings

Path Status Usage ValueSet Version Source
CoreDataElement.type Base required Core Data Element Type Value Set 📦0.3.0 This IG

This structure is derived from Base

Summary

Mandatory: 0 element(2 nested mandatory elements)

Key Elements View

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: doco
CoreDataElement 0..* Base Core Data Element (DAK)
CoreDataElement.type 1..1 code Type
Binding: Core Data Element Type Value Set (required)
CoreDataElement.canonical 1..1 uri Canonical
CoreDataElement.id 0..1 id Element ID
CoreDataElement.description[x] 0..1 Description
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionString string
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionUri uri

doco Documentation for this format

Terminology Bindings

Path Status Usage ValueSet Version Source
CoreDataElement.type Base required Core Data Element Type Value Set 📦0.3.0 This IG

Differential View

This structure is derived from Base

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: doco
CoreDataElement 0..* Base Core Data Element (DAK)
CoreDataElement.type 1..1 code Type
Binding: Core Data Element Type Value Set (required)
CoreDataElement.canonical 1..1 uri Canonical
CoreDataElement.id 0..1 id Element ID
CoreDataElement.description[x] 0..1 Description
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionString string
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionUri uri

doco Documentation for this format

Terminology Bindings (Differential)

Path Status Usage ValueSet Version Source
CoreDataElement.type Base required Core Data Element Type Value Set 📦0.3.0 This IG

Snapshot View

NameFlagsCard.TypeDescription & Constraints    Filter: doco
CoreDataElement 0..* Base Core Data Element (DAK)
CoreDataElement.type 1..1 code Type
Binding: Core Data Element Type Value Set (required)
CoreDataElement.canonical 1..1 uri Canonical
CoreDataElement.id 0..1 id Element ID
CoreDataElement.description[x] 0..1 Description
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionString string
CoreDataElement.description[x].descriptionUri uri

doco Documentation for this format

Terminology Bindings

Path Status Usage ValueSet Version Source
CoreDataElement.type Base required Core Data Element Type Value Set 📦0.3.0 This IG

This structure is derived from Base

Summary

Mandatory: 0 element(2 nested mandatory elements)

 

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