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Inconsistent use of 'messages' vs 'elements' to describe Phenopacket building blocks

Open azankl opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Phenopackets' building blocks are sometimes referred to as ‘messages’ and sometimes as ‘elements’ in the docs. For example, ‘Individual’ is called an element (here), while ‘File’ is called a message (here). I think ‘element’ is better, more in keeping with the ‘building block’ analogy, ‘message’ is more protobuf terminology.

azankl avatar Sep 06 '21 08:09 azankl