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The purpose of this document is to capture proposed agenda topics for the 2017 technical face to face meeting between NCI and Mayo.

 

Agenda ItemPurpose/GoalsProposed DurationParticipantsTime/Date RestrictionsTechnical Discussion/PresentationAdded to Schedule
EVS Year in review

Tuesday, December 5

9:00-11:00

EVS Status and Future Direction

  • Discuss
the accomplishments of the past year and the future direction of EVS
  • EVS current state, trends, and future directions
    • Larry to give brief overview
of full technology suite of EVS terminology suite/tools.  Discuss how they relate to each other
    • of EVS infrastructure, resources, and services, to help frame discussion
    • Group discussion of future possible directions and priorities.

 

 2 hours

Larry Wright

Margaret Haber

Sherri De Coronado

Gilberto Fragoso

Jacob

Editors

Broad cross-EVS participation


Tuesday 9:00 AM

Slide of technical components

Full EVS view of all the technical components.

EVS Project Architecture

 

11:00-12:00

EVS Project Architecture

Proposed topics for discussion:

  • EVS Project Architecture Review and Update
    • Review overall architecture and provide updates.
    • Describe and record full EVS architechture
1 hour

Broad cross-EVS participation


 

Tuesday 11:00 AM EVS Project Architecture  

1:00-2:00

 Tuesday 9:00 AM  

User Group Discussion

CTRP
  • caDSR

Proposed topics for discussion:

  • User Teams to share how they are using
LexEVS and additional usage requirements they may have.
  • Services/updates for our customers - Discuss how to update LexEVS customers with jar files when updating LexEVS versions
    • Releases need to be backwards compatible
  • EVS and  discuss requirements/priorities for the future.
    • APIs: Java, REST (CTS2 or 3-store), SPARQL, FTP
    • Backwards compatibility of server/client/data releases
    • Incl: Java/jar file issues and future
    • Incl: New terminology server API/content/other needs.
1 hourcaDSR contact - Denise, Philippa, developersTuesday 1:00 PM  

2:00-3:00

User Group Discussion

  • FDA
  • CDISC
1 hour

CTRP - Tiger team (Brian)

 

Tuesday 11:00 AM  

User Group Discussion

caDSR

Proposed topics for discussion:

  • User Teams to share how they are using
LexEVS and additional usage requirements they may have.
  • Services/updates for our customers - Discuss how to update LexEVS customers with jar files when updating LexEVS versions
    • Releases need to be backwards compatible
  • EVS and  discuss requirements/priorities for the future.
    • Value set curation in the context of sourcing value sets directly from NCIt
    • Desired output structure
    • APIs: Java, REST (CTS2 or 3-store), SPARQL, FTP
    • Backwards compatibility of server/client/data releases
    • Incl: Java/jar file issues and future
    • Incl: New terminology server API/content/other needs.
1 hour

Editors

Liz, Erin, Brenda

Tuesday 2
1 hourcaDSR contact - DeniseTuesday 1
:00 PM  
3:00-4:00 ?

User Group Discussion

  • FDA
  • CDISC
    • CTRP / CTS-API

    Reschedule - conflicts with Tiger Team (was at 11-12)

    Proposed topics for discussion:

    • User Teams to share how they are using
    LexEVS and additional usage requirements they may have.
    • Services/updates for our customers - Discuss how to update LexEVS customers with jar files when updating LexEVS versions
      • Releases need to be backwards compatible
    • EVS and  discuss requirements/priorities for the future.
      • APIs: Java, REST (CTS2 or 3-store), SPARQL, FTP
      • Backwards compatibility of server/client/data releases
      • Incl: Java/jar file issues and future
      • Incl: New terminology server API/content/other needs.
    1 hour

    CTRP / CTS-API - developers, managers,  Tiger team (Brian, Peter, Tracy, Jason, others

    1 hourEditors (Phillipa

    )

     

    Tuesday
    2
    3:00 PM  
    Wednesday, December 6

    9:00-10:00

    EVS Architecture

    Discuss Potential of using a variety of architectures

    Proposed topics for discussion:

    • Micro services
      • Considerations:
        • Determine how to synchronize data on the back-end. LexEVS DB and Triple Store need to be in sync when NCIt information (such as value sets) changes. 
        • Determine the potential of a loader that relies on SPARQL queries (after SPARQL query load, kick off LexEVS loader)
        • MicroServices and LexEVS
        • MicroServices and deployment options
    • LexEVS integration with EVS Triple Store
      • Considerations:
        • Determine use of triple store calls in parallel with LexEVS DB
        • Determine performance improvements over LexEVS DB
        • Determine what calls could be made to the triple store instead of LexEVS.
        • Determine use of Stardog built in graph database.
        • Determine performance considerations for hierarchy traversal for graph resolution.
    • Future implementation considerations
  • Java
  • Others?
    3 hours
    1 hour

    Gilberto Fragoso

    Kim Ong

    Tracy Safran

    Rob Wynne

    Larry Wright

    Margaret Haber

    Sherri De Coronado

    Bron Kisler

    Systems team

    John Cambell /Ruth Monterio users of the SQARL

     

    Wednesday 9:00 AM

    Micro service proposals

    LexEVS and Triple Store - Would be useful to have slides for suggested integration

    • Umbrella REST API that would connect to LexEVS REST API and Triple Store
     

    10:00-12:00

    EVS Architecture - Technical Discussion with Systems team

    Discuss technical aspects of potentially using a variety of architectures

    Proposed topics for discussion:

    • Micro services
      • Considerations:
        • Embedded Tomcat implementations
        • Alternative web service platforms
        • Container/Port clashes
    • LexEVS integration with EVS Triple Store
      • Considerations:
        • SPARQL clients
        • Docker options
    • Future implementation considerations
      • Java
      • Python
      • Node.js/javascript
      • Others?
    2 hours

    Systems team

     

     

    Wednesday 10:00 AM  

    1:00-2:00

    EVS Project Group Discussion (During regular call-in time)

    Proposed topics for discussion:

    • (High Level Overview) Discuss direct calls to NCIt for value sets
      • Performance
      • Workflow
      • API Implications
    • Discuss Mappings and cross-walking coding schemes

      •  SwissProt, ICD-0-3, and MED-RT as the successor of NDRFT
        • Associations from/to
        • Cross walking coding schemes
        • Loader considerations for Mesh, RxNorm
        • Configuring LexEVS xml to allow load against source not in the service
    1 hour

    Kim Ong

    Tracy Safran

    Rob Wynne

    Editor's Representative/Margaret Haber

    Larry Wright

    Sherri De Coronado

    Wednesday 1:00 PM  

    2:00-3:00

    NCI Systems Discussions

    • CI and Docker Status/Roadmap
    • Tech Stack Upgrades

    Proposed topics for discussion:

    • Discuss CI and Docker Status/Roadmap
      • Discuss the current status of the Docker scripts used to build/test LexEVS components.
        • Discuss the current NCI Docker images used in LexEVS tests.
      • Discuss NCI's current status and future plans to use Docker.
    • Discuss Tech Stack Upgrades
      • Discuss DB upgrade: MySQL 5.6 vs. MariaDB
      • Discuss migrating from Anthill Pro to Jenkins
    1 hour

    Jacob and Systems team

    Gilberto Fragoso

    Rob Wynne

    Tracy Safran

    Kim Ong

    Larry Wright

    Margaret Haber

    Sherri De Coronado

    Q/A (Sana)

    Wednesday 2:00 PM  

    Thursday, December 7

    9:00-12:00

    API Services

    (10-12 Conflicts: Data Commons & GDC meetings)

    Proposed topics for discussion:

    • Overview of EVS REST API and future direction
      • Discuss what exists today.
      • Discuss future plans.
    • Overview of LexEVS provided API services and future direction
      • LexEVS API
      • LexEVS Remote API
      • LexEVS REST API (CTS2-based)
    • Discuss a new REST service
      • Discuss user requirements for a new REST API
        • Document the gaps from CTS2 REST API and user requirements.
        • Explore how simple searches and searches with an identifier and how this could replace most of the remote API.
      • Consider a new REST API to supplement CTS2 REST Services
        • Propose examination of current CTS2 REST API
        • Capture what doesn't work for the end users.
        • Review gap between Remote API and REST services.
      • Discuss surfacing terminology history in a REST service (NCIt and ULMS)
        • Determine what history information is required by the user to be returned.
          • Discuss surfacing history of value sets in a REST service
        • Discuss if this fits into LexEVS or is part of a new REST API

     

    3 hours

    Kim Ong

    Tracy Safran

    Rob Wynne

    End users such as CTRP, others

    Larry Wright

    Margaret Haber

    Sherri De Coronado

    Thursday 9:00 AM  

    1:00-3:00

    Prioritization and debrief

     
    Determine strategic direction and priorities1
    hour
    -2 hours Thursday 1:00 PM