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Tool overview
LexWiki is a collaborative terminology authoring platform based on Semantic MediaWiki and LexGrid technology. It is designed to provide terminology users and subject matter experts the ability to browse and discuss terminology content and structure, and the ability to create machine readable structured proposals. Protégé components are not part of this package but are being considered for future releases.
Features of LexWiki
- Browsing support
- Hierarchy view with Category Tree extension
- Concept-oriented view with Header tabs extension
- Proposal browsing - all proposals by curation status and by categories with ontology browser
- My Proposal browsing with MyWorkflow extension
- Authoring support
- LexWiki Editor - Semantic Forms/Header Tabs: may propose structured changes and unstructured changes
- Change tracking and view changes
- Proposal Commenting
- Proposal Voting
- Evidence attachment with citation and file upload
- LexWiki is currently not a grid enabled technology
What's new
At-a-glance specifications
The LexWiki Installation Guide (posted for each version with the LexWiki Documentation is intended for system administrators. This guide will give you an overview of how to install and configure a LexWiki system. If you are not an administrator, we recommend that you work with the system administrator of your organization to install and configure LexWiki.
System requirements
- Linux or Windows
- Apache HTTP Server 2.2.3 or above
- MySql 5.0.77 or above
- PHP 5.1.6 or above
- Java 1.5 or above
- Ant 1.6.5 or above
Note
The Ant installer is not officially supported for the Windows Vista operating system.
Installation requirements
- The user should understand how to work with a web server.
- The user must have appropriate privileges (read, write, and execute - rwx) to the location on the file system that will be served by the web server.
- For Linux users, the installer requires that the user has one of the following system privileges:
- Root / superuser account
- Apache account (or the user account on which the web server is running)
- A user account which belongs to the same group as the Apache account.
- The user has the SELECT privilege on mysql.func table in the MySQL database.
- The web server is started and running.
LexWikiPublisher
LexWikiPublisher is a corollary tool used to publish content from a LexEVS server into the LexWiki system. Refer to the LexWiki Publisher page for more information.
Installations and downloads
Refer to LexWiki Documentation for installation instructions that go with the downloads.
LexWiki 2.0 (30.2 MB)
LexWiki 1.1 (18.8 MB)
[LexWiki 1.0|LexWiki to Include^LexWikiInstaller.zip] (17.1 MB)
LexWiki documentation
Support
Presentations and demos
- LexWiki Demo
This is a demonstration MediaWiki set up with LexWiki.
Related tools
Specific Instances of LexWiki:
- [EVS:BiomedGT Wiki (an instance of LexWiki)]
- [VKC:Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events]
- [VKC:CDISC Shared Health and Clinical Research Electronic Library (CSHARE)]
Additional resources
- [LexWiki Tool Adopters]
- Available LexWiki Instances For Review by WHO ICD11 Community