What's New

in LexEVS 6.0

is the latest release. This release focuses primarily on alignment with standards. Other significant functionality added, especially in the areas of authoring APIs, value sets, mappings, and exporters top the list of enhancements, is as follows:

• Comprehensive support of the Common Terminology Services - Release 2 functionality as described in the Health Level Seven (HL7) CTS 2 Draft Standard for Trial Use (DSTU|)

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• LexGrid Model and database updates to support CTS 2 (See LexEVS 6.x Information Models)
• Loader and data access layer changes to support CTS 2 functions
• Additional versioning and value set and picklist functionality to support CTS 2 functions (See LexEVS 6.x Value Set and Pick List Definition Guide)
• New OWL/RDF Exporter (See LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Administration 2 - Export Operation API)
• XML exporter enhancements to provide filtered export of code system (See LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Administration 2 - Export Operation API)
• New Authoring API services to support CTS 2 functions (See LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Authoring 2 - Code System Authoring Operation API)
• New Query API services to support CTS 2 functions (See LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Query 3 - Concept Domain Query Operation API, LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Query 4 - Usage Context Query Operation API, LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Query 5 - Value Set Query Operation API)
• Associations and mappings enhancements to support CTS 2 functions and user requirements (See LexEVS 6.0 CTS2 Authoring 1 - Association Authoring Operation API)

Presentations, Demos and Other Materials

Presentations

Examples

• Query Service with Program Examples, included in the LexEVS base installation. Both Lexical Set Operations and Graph Operations are included for common vocabulary functions using a sample vocabulary and CodedNodeSet. This is described in the LexEVS 6.0 Installation Guide .
• Example Programs and Verification Test Suite, included in the LexEVS base installation. The Example Programs provide a limited interactive demonstration of LexEVS capabilities. Both are explained in the LexEVS 6.0 Installation Guide.

• LexEVS Example Code zip file

• . These are code examples for subjects of frequently asked questions such as creating a coded node graph using the LexBIG convenience methods.

Documentation and Training

• Release Notes (wiki)

• LexEVS 6.x Installation Guide - outlines the supported configurations and technical installation instructions for LexEVS Vocabulary Services

• LexEVS 6.x Administration Guide - outlines the environment configuration from the perspective of an existing installation

• LexEVS 6.x Programmer's Guide - explains the LexEVS API (services, extensions, utilities, and GUI); also many related APIs

• LexEVS 6.x Design and Architecture Guide - explains the LexGrid model and the LexBIG services

• LexEVS 6.x Value Set and Pick List Definition Guide - explains the LexEVS 6.0 Value Set and Pick List Definition documentation

• LexEVS 6.x Loader Guide - intended for a LexEVS developer and provides information about the loaders provided, mapping, and how to create your own loaders using the loader framework

• LexEVS 6.x OWL Export Guide - explains the steps necessary to export content in OWL/RDF format

• LexEVS in SpringSource MVC Maven Project guide - shows how to use a local instance of LexEVS in a Spring 3.0.x MVC project and how to deploy it to a Tomcat server from within the SpringSource Tool Suite.

• LexEVS 6.0 Javadocs download - has several parts to the LexEVS Javadocs to consult depending on what you are looking for. One download includes all the Javadocs.

• If you have a local application accessing a Local Runtime, view the Local Runtime Javadoc

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• To interact with a LexEVS server that is hosting terminologies remotely, whether it be your own or the services at NCI, view the Distributed Javadoc online.

• If you are using the Grid Analytical Services, view the Grid Analytical Services Javadoc

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• The Grid Data Service for LexEVS sits behind a caGrid interface. Most users do not reach this service via the Java API and in fact only a single method in the caGrid API is of interest. It can be found in the Grid Data Service Implementation.

Contributions

In the spirit of open source NCIP invites you to participate in the community. The contribution process is described in LexEVS Community Code Contribution. LexEVS source code is in NCI SVN..

Related Applications

NCI Protégé
NCI Term Browser
NCI Thesaurus
NCI Metathesaurus