Project Summary
Background
As a means towards engaging this larger community and contributing to the creation of solutions for its needs, the BIG Health Consortium was formed, a non-governmental organization that is affiliated with caBIG, but which has a complementary agenda that is focused on enabling the integration of research, care delivery, and patient-driven decision making in practical ways. As a consequence, the institutional stakeholders associated with BIG Health Consortium extend well beyond the cancer centers, universities, and cooperative groups that make up the core NCI-funded constituencies that have participated in caBIG since its original incarnation. The extended community thus goes beyond what is considered caBIG-proper today, and includes groups that are not yet connected to caGrid.
Vision Statement
The caDSR has a suite of tools and APIs that support workflows for metadata development, browsing and retrieval. In addition, the caDSR has been adapted to support the UML model-driven development paradigm adopted by caBIG. UML-defined information models such as those from the BRIDG project, caArray, caTissue, and others are each registered in the caDSR through conversion of the model elements into ISO11179 metadata constructs. This functionality, and the workflows that it supports, has evolved over an 8-year period and is now quite mature. It satisfies the current requirements for semantic representation in the current caBIG developer and user community, but it is ill-suited to serve the new requirements for decentralization and indefinite scalability in the broader health care community. The goal of this program is therefore to harvest and recycle the best elements of the first generation of caBIG metadata infrastructure, and to then incorporate those elements into a redesigned and modernized technology stack that is engineered from the start to support a federated deployment topology with far less centralized administration.
Documentation
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Knowledge Repository Project Page |
Architecture Guide |
Vision and Scope |
ECCF Matrix
Topic Specification |
Enterprise/Business View |
Computational View |
Engineering View |
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Conceptual |
Business Context, |
Domain Analysis Information Model |
Existing Platform Capabilities |
Platform Independent |
Business Governance |
Project-oriented Information Model, |
Existing Platform Models |
Platform Specific |
Rules, |
Localized Information Model, |
Execution Context, |
ECCF Documentation
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CFSS |
Vision/Scope Document |
PIM |
TBD |
PSM |
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Project Planning
We engage in Agile project development, where we focus on time-boxed iterations that result in a deployable, testable application at the end of each iteration. As part of the iterative development, we actively engage with stakeholders on a regular basis. This section describes our project plan and meeting schedule.
Management Approach
In line with our Agile development methodology, we have adopted a modified version of Scrum. Checkout our Product Backlog of prioritized features and our Sprint Backlogs.
For additional information, please view our Project Plan and Communications Plan.
Team
Team Members
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Project Director | |
Project Manager | |
Subject Matter Expert | |
Architect | |
Lead Business Analyst | |
Senior Business Analyst | |
Senior Software Engineer | |
Software Engineer | TBN |
Quality Assurance Engineer | TBN |
Technical Writer | TBN |
Contact Information
Name | Company | Role | phone | |
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Dave Hau | CBIIT - NIH | Inter-Team Project Oversight | --- | --- |
Larry Brem | CBIIT - NIH | Inter-Team Project Oversight | --- | breml@mail.nih.gov |
Tim Casey | CBIIT - NIH | Inter-Team Project Oversight | --- | timothy.casey@nih.gov |
Ram Chilukuri | SemanticBits | SME | --- | ram.chilukuri@semanticbits.com |
Joshua Phillips | SemanticBits | Project Lead | 410.624.9155 | joshua.phillips@semanticbits.com |
Bea Mahious | SemanticBits | Project Manager | 443.797.5462 | beate.mahious@semanticbits.com |
Carlos Perez | SemanticBits | Technical Lead/Senior Software Engineer | --- | carlos.perez@semanticbits.com |
Stijn Heymans | SemanticBits | Software Engineer | --- | stijn.heymans@semanticbits.com |
Tom Digre | SemanticBits | Chief Architect | --- | tom.digre@semanticbits.com |
Alan Blair | SemanticBits | Lead Business Analyst | (c)703-966-5355 (o)703-787-9656 ex: 248 | alan.blair@semanticbits.com |
Patrick McConnell | SemanticBits | Senior Business Analyst | 404-939-7623 | patrick.mcconnell@semanticbits.com |
Matthew McKinnerey | SemanticBits | Lead Business Analyst | --- | mathew.mckinnerey@semanticbits.com |
Meetings
We have a daily scrum from 1:00-1:15. Contact the Project Manager if you feel you need the login details.
Deliverable Schedule
Deliverable Artifacts
Resources
The following are some resources that we have found useful in this project: