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The purpose of this document is to document the technical face to face meeting details between the NCI and Mayo for the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) LexEVS Release 6.3 and LexEVS Release 6.4 .

2015 December Face-to-Face Meeting Notes 

Agenda

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Tuesday, December 8

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Discussion: Tech Stack Updates

• Migration to Java 8
• Migration to centOS 7
• Migration to Spring 4
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

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Discussion: LEXEVS API/Browser Performance and Usability Improvements

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases
• Areas for discussion:
  • value set
  • mapping 
  • multi-namespace
  • relationship querying
  • inferred data
• Discuss the removal of caCORE and refactor Remote API
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

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Discussion: Enhancing the LEXEVS CTS2 REST Interface

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases
• Areas for discussion:
  • Expanding to include Associations
  • Specialized REST calls (e.g., bulk download) to CTS2 service framework
  • Provide the capability to use data from one endpoint to query another
  • Provide a framework that includes both CTS2 and Extensions
  • Bulk downloads/special user requirements
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

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Information Session: Using LexEVS Query API and CTS2 API

• Overview to demonstrate how to query using LexEVS APIs
• Review of existing LexEVS API documentation
• Open discussion - specific use cases

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Wednesday, December 9

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Kim Ong
Scott Bauer 

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Discussion: Coding Scheme Search and Indexing

• Determine requirements/use cases for horizontal coding scheme searches
• Overview of indexing of qualifiers
• Overview of search results in 6.4

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Discussion: LEXEVS Loader Improvements

• Discuss known issues for OWL2, MedDRA and HL7 Loaders
• Other loader improvements
• Determine next steps/roadmap

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EVS Tools (LexEVS & EVS Focus) Meeting

• Open topics

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Tutorial/Discussion: Loader Implementation and Requirements

• Overview of LexEVS Loader development process
• Implement a simple LexEVS loader (hands-on)
• Discussion of entry points into various loaders for purposes of updating

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Tracy
Rob
 

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Thursday, December 10

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Discussion: Triple Store/Graph Database

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases 
• Discuss plans based on Triple Store Capability Research and Analysis wiki pages
• Demo of ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com/)
• Determine next steps/roadmap

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Discussion: Cloud Considerations

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases for supporting a cloud environment

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Discussion: Build and Deployment Process

• DevOps and continuous integration
• Changes for build, deployment and distribution
  • Changes to support 6.4
  • Considerations for Triple Store/Graph DB
  • Considerations for Cloud Infrastructure
• Mayo's continuous integration server
• Demo of Docker
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

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Discussion: Value Set Editor (Authoring)

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases
  

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Discussion: The Future of lbGUI

• Discuss future requirements
• Review issues - JIRA and others
• Develop a roadmap to address technical debt
• Determine next steps/roadmap

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Debrief

• Prioritize
• Determine next steps/roadmap

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, 2015

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