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Registry Components and SI Services: Registry

Refer to the descriptions for each component in the following rows.

Box Name: Artifact Reference and Store

This registry component The artifact reference is a store or registry that contains references to the various artifacts.   Each artifact should have a URL that can be used to physically access the file.   Each artifact reference is accompanied by a checksum or some other method to be able to verify the accessed object.

Box Name: Artifact Access

This registry component provides programmatic access to artifacts in the Artifact Reference and Store.

Box Name: Artifact Registry and Retrieve

This registry SI service provides a programmatic method for accessing artifacts within the SIinterface for interacting with the artifact reference registry.

Box Name: Transformation Governance Integration

This registry SI service provides a service that has a number of services that take as input some artifact and outputs in alternative representations.  This might include a class model in UML being transformed to an OWL ontologystate mechanisms about known artifacts that can be accessed and reviewed through governance activities.

Box Name: Validation and Compliance Suite

This registry SI service integrates with the reasoning system to validate the compliance of specific artifacts (ECCF models).

Semantic Components and SI Services: Semantic

Refer to the descriptions for each component in the following rows.

Box Name: Semantic Knowledge Store

This store semantic component provides a physical representation of semantics that have either been derived through artifact analysis, or through manual annotation.   This store could be represented by an RDF (Resource Description Framework) triple store.

Box Name: Artifact Registry and Retrieve Transformation

This semantic component provides a function that takes as input some artifact and provides output in alternative representations. This might include a class model in UML being transformed to an OWL ontology The registry and retrieve service provides a programmatic interface for interacting with the artifact reference registry.

Box Name: Automated Semantics Discovery Suite

This semantic SI service takes an as input artifacts or artifact transformations and extracts as much semantics many semantic representations as possible.   The details and amounts of the semantics will depend on artifact type, representation, and completeness. The results are then stored in the Semantic Knowledge Store.

Box Name  Name: Annotation Semantic Reasoning Platform

This semantic SI service provides description logic based functionality that uses inferencing to allow additional semantics (assertions) The annotation services provides functionality which allows additional semantics to be added to about an artifact reference in the Semantic Knowledge store, supporting capabilities such as checking ontology consistency, building classification, verifying the satisfiability of concepts, and checking entailment.

Box Name: Orchestration

The orchestration service manages the internal flow of operations which can be performed.  This includes automating the transformation and semantic discovery and the utilization of various rule systems or classification systems.

Semantic Query

This semantic SI service provides querying functionality on the semantics of an artifact reference in the Semantic Knowledge store. Different querying mechanisms may be supported, including but not limited to graph-based, rule-based, tree or directory-based, and object-based.

Box Name: Annotation

This semantic SI service provides functionality that allows additional semantics to be added about an artifact reference in the Semantic Knowledge store, and is used to augment the semantic representations which were automatically discovered.

Box Name: Data Transformation Service

This semantic SI service provides a set of transformation functions which are designed to transform data; this may include transforming data graphs into CSV, result sets into XML, or other reasonable transformations. This function may use semantics stored about artifacts to aid in the transformation function.

SI Framework Components and SI Services: Framework

Refer to the descriptions for each component in the following rows

Box Name : Governance Integration

To support governance, this service provides state mechanisms about known artifacts that can be accessed and reviewed through governance activates.

Box Name: Access Service Directory

This directory represents framework component provides the set of services that are available within an SI a Semantic Infrastructure implementation which are designed to manage artifacts and their semantic representations.   This will allow for the coordination of stores and services across the grid.

Box Name: Reasoning Framework Service Directory

This framework component provides the set of services that are available within a Semantic Infrastructure implementation that provide reasoning functionality to analyze artifacts and instance representations of associated data.

Box Name: Rule Systems System Interface

This framework component provides The rule systems provide integrations of one or more rule systems that provide to support to the SI to express Semantic Infrastructure in expressing business rules and behaviors.

Box Name: Classification Reasoners Interface

This framework component provides integrations for Classification reasoners provide integration to one or more classification tools.   These tools are systems that process semantic and dependent information and dependant to determine relationships and associations of classes and individuals which may be expressed in an artifact,  its its annotated information, or  or instance representations of associated data.

Box Name:
Expert Systems System Interface

This framework component The expert systems interface provides integration to one or more expert systems.   These systems utilize a set of known facts and domain expert definitions to determine additional semantics and functional definitions within the artifact semantic information and instance representations of associated data.

Box Name: Reasoning SI Services Framework Service Directory

This framework component provides interface support to semantic and reasoning services This directory represents the set of services that are available within an SI implementation provide reasoning functionality to analyze artifacts and instance representations of associated data.

Box Name: caGrid 2.0

Is the connectivity and secure transmission hub for communications with institutions utilized by NCI and it’s associated cancer centers, research centers, and affiliated organizations.

Box Name : Grid Application Toolbox

This is a collection of tools and libraries which are designed to make integration to the caGrid easier and more efficient.

Box Name : caGrid Enabled Applications

Any application that utilizes the grid for communications.  These apps may utilize the Grid Application Toolbox or provide their own interface to the caGrid .  Examples of these applications include the caBig Clinical Information Suite and caTissue.  This will also include infrastructure tools such as Form definition tools, query tools and code generation systems.

Orchestration

This framework SI service manages the internal flow of operations that can be performed. This includes automating the transformation and semantic discovery and the utilization of various rule systems or classification systems.

Integrations and applications

Refer to the descriptions for each component in the following rows.

Arrow: Grid Integration

The grid integration represents the interaction of Semantic Infrastructure services with the caGrid

Box Name: Grid Application Toolkit

This Semantic Infrastructure tool provides libraries and functions that ease the creation of new caGrid enabled applications. This tool kit will provide a method to integrate caGrid 1.0 applications to ease applications into the caGrid 2.0 environment.

Box Name: caGrid Enabled Applications

caGrid enabled applications include any application written to the caGrid specification

Box Name : Semantic Annotation Application

This application is a caGrid enabled application which provides users with the ability to annotate artifacts in an SI framework implementation.  This application is likely a Web Based application that may be part of the caGrid Portal.

Box Name: caGrid Portal The

This caGrid Portal is an application that provides support of the integration of grid components.  From the portal identification of services and data is performed to expose that information to the other users of the gridapplication is a tool for accessing aspects of of the caGrid in a partner site.

Box Name: Clinical Data

This represents clinical information that may be exposed to the grid.   Using the portal, an authorized user may expose data or services onto the grid, ; this might include outcome markers, treatment plans or other relevant information

Box Name: Clinical Research Data

This represents clinical research data that might be exposed to the grid.   Using the portal, an authorized user may expose data or services onto the grid, ; this might include trial cohort qualifications, raw data, or publishable results.

Box Name: Life Sciences Data

This represents life sciences data that might be exposed to the grid.   Using the portal, an authorized user may expose data or services on the grid, ; this might included gene array studies, algorithms, methodologies and data sets.

Box Name: SI Portal

This application provides a user interface for implementations of the Semantic Infrastructure framework components. The user would use this tool to access the functionality of the Semantic Infrastructure components exposed on the grid. Probably a part of the caGrid Portal

Box Name: Service Discovery

This tool and portal component provide a user with the ability to enter key words and tags or semantic queries to help determine the locations of artifacts and communication endpoints.

Box Name: Semantic Annotation Application

This tool and portal component provides a user with the ability to annotate artifacts and communication endpoints to help the user perform queries.

Box Name: Data Endpoint Service Generator

This tool allows a user to quickly create a data endpoint and make it available on the caGrid, merging the data source with a SPARQL Endpoint and structuring for access.

Box Name: Artifact Publication

This tool allows a user to take an artifact and provide a reference to the registry components of the Semantic Infrastructure framework, and provide basic annotations.

Arrow: Other Platforms Integration

This integration represents the interaction of Semantic Infrastructure services with applications and platforms that might need to utilize function of the Semantic Infrastructure.

Box Name: SI Application Toolkit

This Semantic Infrastructure tool provides libraries and functions that ease the creation of new Semantic Infrastructure Framework enabled applications.

Box Name: Forms (and Object) Modeler

This Semantic Infrastructure tool is used to create forms models, message models and other core object models from defined structures. This tool works with information in the Semantic Infrastructure to access meta-models and model definitions to construct representations of objects which can be used for data collection and information exchange.

Box Name: Artifact Publication

This Semantic Infrastructure is the non-portal version of the artifact publication found in the Semantic Infrastructure portal. This component is different, because it will provide greater access to various components, enhanced governance support and manipulation of Knowledge Store objects requiring enhanced behaviors.

Box Name: SI Enabled Applications

This represents any number of applications that might need access to Semantic Infrastructure functionality and would utilize the Semantic Infrastructure application toolkit. This may include NCI applications such as caTissue.