Document Information

Author: Gilberto Fragoso/Bob Dionne
Email: fragosog@mail.nih.gov
Team: EVS
Contract: [Contract number]
Client: NCI CBIIT
National Institutes of Heath
US Department of Health and Human Services

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Sign off	Date	Role	CBIIT or Stakeholder Organization

The purpose of this document is to collect, analyze, and define high-level needs and features of the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) Protege Release 1.4.1. This document focuses on the functionalities 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 Protege 1.4.1 is to provide bugs fixes found in previous Protege releases as well as completing feature request for formatting of the complex properties and improving performance for batch edits.

This release will be performed over one main development iteration and a second iteration to cover any items found in UAT:

Iteration B0 - Development of Scoped Features and Bug Fixes

Iteration B1 - Bug fixes found from user acceptance testing

Current Solution

Protege 1.4 is currently in production.

Iteration B0

GForge number (hyperlinked)	Brief description of item	(Approved or Proposed)
9298	Prompt - accept and reject icons in 'changed by' panel of 'table' view don't work	Approved
12337	Automated configuration of server project	Approved
20906	Protege incorrectly exporting names with quotes	Approved
21549	Single quote mark around multi-word parents	Approved
21738	Hierarchy is not refreshing the D when retire concept	Approved
21946	Incorrect unretire functionality	Approved
22090	Tool Tab compression and disappearance	Approved
22104	search string appears empty when invoked from restriction dialog box	Approved
22785	Only exports the first page of results in LQT search	Approved
22902	Create a restriction with retired individual.	Approved
23385	update protege/workflow and SWM to handle new XML Literal complex properties	Approved
24803	Edit of Preferred_Name does not always sync the NCI PT	Approved
24805	Edit of Preferred_Name in Copy tab caused two rdfs:labels	Approved
24870	trouble with saving upper/lowercase variants in the FS slot	Approved
24878	Deprecated concepts are editable	Approved
24929	Restriction domain checking does not work correctly for referenced classes	Approved
24955	Rejection of changes to Retired Concept branch caused deletion of newly retired classes	Approved

Iteration B1

GForge number (hyperlinked)	Brief description of item	(Approved or Proposed)
25466	Cannot edit or delete associations	Approved

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	Iteration (Approved or Proposed)
	Example, "Level 2 Support, integration of help and training to the user community."

Stakeholder Summary

Customer Name	Role	Interest/Need
NCI CBIIT EVS Content Editorial Team	EVS Content Management	Primary Users of Protege. Utilize Protege to edit EVS content

CBIIT Staff/Contractor Name	Role	Responsibilities
George Komatsoulis	NCI CBIIT	Oversees NCI CBIIT Application Infrastructure
Avinash Shanbhag	Director of CORE Engineering	Oversees NCICB caCORE Software Engineering
Frank Hartel	EVS Product Manager	Directs EVS Projects
Sherri de Coronado	Contract Project Officer	Management/technical resource from Bioinformatics vertica. Contract management, coordinateion, testing, documentation
Gilberto Fragoso	Government Lead	Technical resource from Bioinformatics vertical

Technical Environment

This product uses the following technical components which have been derived from the current NCICB Technology Stack.

Client Application	The Protege client is java based and provides a complete editing environment for Protege databases, call ontologies. It uses the same plugin architecture to support extensions, called Tabs. For example, the NCI Edit Tab, Workflow, Changes, and Prompt, are examples of plugin tabs. Java 1.5.x
Application Server	None
Database Server	MySQL
Operating System	Any that supports Java: Windows XP, Linux, OS X
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Product Dependencies

This release is dependent on the caCORE components or products documented in the CORE Product Dependency Matrix.

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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 with brief explanation added of why it was not included in this release	Iteration during which the item was removed from in-scope

Document History

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Project Information

CBIIT Management	Role	Responsibilities
Frank Hartel	Product Manager	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.

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