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Inventory of existing services


Inventory of customers

  • Capture API usage by caDSR
  • Capture API usage by Browser (new)
  • Capture API usage by Browser (current)
  • Future customers (Cancer Data Aggregator and other TBD projects) will create multiple requests for terminology information for NCIt, Meta as well as others.


Inventory of requirements

  • Continued availability of Metathesaurus
  • Continued availability of Single Source Ontologies
  • Continued availability of Value Sets
  • Ability to capture usage statistics
  • Mapping (Auto) in support of Cancer Data Aggregator
  • Browser (new) support


Inventory of use cases

  • SEER: Map to RxNorm
  • CTRP use cases
  • API use cases
    • example: Given a SNOMED concept code - find the ICD10 concept code

Evaluation of services/data

  • Evaluate and identify the high-usage APIs 
  • Evaluate Triple Store support for existing Metathesaurus
    • Metathesaurus to OWL
    • Metadata OWL
  • Evaluate Triple Store support for existing Value Sets
  • Evaluate Triple Store support for existing Maps
  • Evaluate expanding Mapping support in LexEVS and Triple Store
  • Evaluate Stand Alone maps in LexEVS and Triple Store
  • Evaluate a consolidation of combined lucene-based search engines
  • Performance of Triple Store and LexEVS
  • Inventory of Triple Store strengths 
  • Inventory of LexEVS strengths
    • List of services that could be enhanced or created
    • Explain how these strengths will be utilized
  • Evaluate maintenance of Triple Store and LexEVS
  • Evaluate and document architecture (EVS Architecture)


Prepare proposal 

  • Document best case solutions
    • Architecture
    • EVS REST API
    • LexEVS REST API
  • produce a roadmap for each


Present proposal(s)

Prototype/Implement

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