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This section provides an overview of the key tools that are expected to address the Semantic Infrastructure requirements. Tools are a combination of applications, user interfaces and services that address a specific Semantic Infrastructure requirements. The tool description provides a user view of how the tools may be used to for specific tasks.

This section includes the following:
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h4. ECCF Registry and User Interface

The ECCF registry interface will provide a single interface for accessing all the artifacts and service metadata. Users will be able to use the interface to perform:

Artifact Search and Access
* Search the registry for model
* Search CTS 2 for existing value sets
* Search the OID registry for an appropriate identifier route
* Retrieve an existing model from the registry
* Retrieve schemas and form definitions
* Import a new model for annotation (binding to terminology and value-sets)
* Retrieve the value set from CTS 2 and apply to the model attributes

Artifact Authoring
* Create a new value set (leveraging terminology services) and manage existing artifacts
* Register the object identifier with its metadata
* Register a new artifact in the registry with its metadata (including ECCF specific information), traceability to support provenance
* Link the models to existing models, domains, or both and classify artifacts
* Constrain existing models
* Constrain existing data-types
* Link artifacts to service specifications
* Dupport collaborative development of metadata

Artifact Governance and Lifecycle Management
* Initiate artifact workflow
* Monitor the workflow process
* Allow curators to set the status of a model and receive change notifications
* Customize review and approval workflows
* Govern collaborative development

Artifact Analysis
* Execute semantic queries for search and analysis

Access Control and Policy Management
* Establish templates and policies that can be applied to artifacts
* Link the users security and access rights to a particular governance and workflow
* Execute semantic queries for analysis
* Identify dependencies

Search and Access Services
* Discover services
* Execute complex queries to identify services
* Discover contracts at runtime

Administer Services and Specifications
* Create a new service specification
* Create and edit service metadata
* Link the artifacts to the service specification
* Construct conformance statements
* Run validations on specification and supporting artifacts
* Apply constraints, rules and policies
* Constrain and reuse existing specifications and artifacts

Analyze Services
* Execute semantic queries for analysis
* Perform impact analysis to identify dependencies and constraints

Service Governance and Workflows
* Initiate service specification governance
* Monitor the workflow and approval process
* Allow governance team to set the status of specification and promote
* Manage versioning and localization of the service specifications
* Govern collaborative development

h4. Plug-ins, Loaders and Miscellaneous Development Tools

Plug-ins and development tools are extensions to existing tools to support better integration with the ECCF registry:
* Publish artifacts from eclipse and other modeling tools to the ECCF registry
* Publish content from external tools to the ECCF registry, with support for topic maps and DITA
* Extract and load metadata from artifacts into registry

h4. Forms Editor

An end user tool for creating and editing forms:
* Create form definitions
* Retrieve models, data-types and value-sets
* Define skip patterns, layout and display options
* Publish forms to ECCF registry
* Reuse and leverage predefined templates

h4. Conformance Testing Framework

A testing framework for developing automated test scripts that can be executed against an artifact or service.
* Retrieve artifact metadata and conformance statements
* Generate test scripts
* Execute conformance tests
* Generate conformance report

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