Team: LexEVS
Contract: ST12-1106
Client: NCI CBIIT
National Institutes of Heath
US Department of Health and Human Services
Sign off | Date | Role | CBIIT or Stakeholder Organization |
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The purpose of this document is to collect, analyze, and define high-level needs and features of the National Cancer Institute Center for LexEVS Release 6.1. This document focuses on the functions proposed by the product stakeholders and target users in order to make it a better product. The use-case and supplementary specifications document will detail how the framework will fulfill these needs.
Vision and Needs
The objective of this release of the LexEVS API is to provide a CTS2 compliant REST API, Enhanced Performance and new loaders.
Functional Requirements
Each enhancement, modification or new feature is described in detail below.
Functional Bug Fixes
Each bug fix included in this release is described in detail below.
Non-Functional Requirements
This section describes in detail all the related requirements which must be met for this release but do not add functionality. These requirements are included in the scope and project plan due to level of effort or relative importance to the overall success of delivery of the release.
General Support Activities
This section describes in detail all the related activities which must be performed for this release but do not add functionality. These activities are included in the scope and project plan due to level of effort or relative importance to the overall success of delivery of the release.
GForge number (hyperlinked) | Brief description of general support activity | Status | Iteration |
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| LexEVS Level 2 Support - integration of help and training to the user community. | Approved | --- |
Stakeholder Summary
CBIIT Staff/Contractor Name | Role | Responsibilities |
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George Komatsoulis | NCICB Application Infrastructure | Oversees NCICB Application Infrastructure |
Avinash Shanbhag | NCICB Application Infrastructure | Oversees NCICB caCORE Software Engineering |
Larry Wright/ Sherri de Coronado | EVS Product Managers | Directs EVS Projects |
Denise Warzel | CORE Product Line Manager | Trans-CORE requirement coordination |
Gilberto Fragoso | Associate Director EVS Infrastructure | Technical Direction |
Jason Lucas | EVS Software Project Manager | Project schedule and task management for EVS team |
Craig Stancl | Mayo Clinic Technical Lead | Technical Direction and Implementation |
Traci St.Martin | Mayo Clinic Project Manager | Project schedule and task management |
Larry Brem | SAIC caBIG ARCH and VCDE Technical Program Manager | Contract governance |
Technical Environment
This product uses the following technical components which have been derived from the current NCICB Technology Stack.
Component | Description |
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Client Interface |
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Application Server |
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Database Server |
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Operating System |
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[EVS:Other] | --- |
Product Dependencies
This release is dependent on the caCORE components or products documented in the CORE Product Dependency Matrix.
Out of Scope Items
Items that are out of scope were evaluated as part of the initial scoping activities for this release, and subsequently not included in the final approved scope. These items are also documented in the cumulative backlog of requirements found on the product GForge site. They include out-of-scope functional requirements (enhancements or new features), bug fixes, non-functional requirements, and general support activities.
GForge number (hyperlinked) | Brief description of item moved from the in-scope section | Iteration during which the item |
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Make sample programs (in the examples folder) runnable under both local and distributed modes. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
Need to be abe to uniquely identify the coding scheme to which a concept belongs. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
MedDRA loading into LexEVS. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
Spruce up MetaDataLoader GUI. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
Enhance LexBIG query API to fetch AssociationData objects. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
Better validation on restrictions. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
Need an option to exclude the focused node itself from ResolvedConceptReferenceList when resolving a CNG. Deferred due to low priority. | Inception | |
Ontology for Genetic Interval hierarchy does not match up Protege. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
ECG Ontology missing Description, Date, Source and Creator fields. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
Can not compute root node for OBI version v1.0.1423. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
Lucene Max Clause Count exceeded on broad NCI MetaThesaurus RegExp Restrictions. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
CodedNodeGraph resolveAsList distributed method encountered Java heap space error. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
Heap space error on Doubpe Metaphone MetaThesaurus query. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
REST API Features. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
LexEVS Value Domain Support to include persistance of resolved value domain content. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
Add methods to ResolvedConceptReferencesIterator for supporting communications with client applications. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
Ability to query for inferred data - implement ability to reason. Deferred - This item has been discussed and is not an issue for 6.0. | Inception | |
Anonymous class hierarchy with unions not showing up correctly. Deferred due to priority. | Inception | |
LexEVS 5.0 Silver Level Review. Out of Scope - Compatibility Review process change. | Inception | |
LexEVS 6.0 Silver Level Compatibility Review Submission Package. Out of Scope - Compatibility Review process change. | Inception | |
| CTS2 Semantic Profiles: Developing Terminology Profile, HL7 Terminology Profile | Inception |
Document History
Item | Information |
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Document Version: | Click the Info tab. View the Recent Changes or click the link to view the page history. |
Last Modified: | Refer to the first line displayed in the document window. |
Project GForge site: | [https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/projects/lexevs/ |
Most current version: | Unless the display includes a notice that you are viewing a previous version, you are viewing the most current version of this Scope Document for the release indicated in the title. |
Revision history: | Click the Info tab. In the Recent Changes area, click the link to view the page history. |
Review history: | Click the Info tab. In the Recent Changes area, note the developer who made each change and the date and time. Refer to the Key People Directory for their roles. Click the link to view any page or to view the page history, and then click the link for a page. When the page opens, view the comments and changes made in that version. |
Related documents: | Confluence Wiki documents LexEVS 6.0 Development Documents |
Project Information
CBIIT Management | Role | Responsibilities |
|---|---|---|
Larry Wright/ Sherri de Coronado | Co-Product Managers | Oversees development of the product: features, functions, definition of stakeholders, priorities within the scope, timeframe for release |
Avinash Shanbhag | Engineering Manager | Oversees NCICB caCORE software engineering practices, conducts design reviews, guides technical development |
Denise Warzel | Product Line Manager | Oversees NCICB caCORE product line. Responsible for overall product integration, major and minor release cycles. Supports Product Manager. |
