Active Period
Active from September 9, 2009 to November 30, 2009
Issue/Problem Statement
Problem Statement: caBIG, NCI, cancer centers and other organization associated with caBIG need to be able to easily create and edit ("author") Terminologies. Although NCI has used various authoring tools in the past, they have proven too heavyweight for use in an easy, distributed environment. With the advent of distributed terminology publishing services (eg, LexEVS), the caBIG community will need to consider tools and services for AUTHORING terminologies.
Objectives
This group should produce (at least) two documents:
1) A list of prioritized requirements for a terminology authoring tool/service. The requirements can be (but do not have to be) layered. That is, high level conceptual requirements (eg, based on best practices) and lower level, implementation specific requirements for an NCI/caBIG implementation.
2) A table (a simplistic notion = a table like in consumer reports) of terminology authoring tools/services on the market that are ranked according to the criteria in #1 above. There should be some written text on the 5 highest priorities with an emphasis on how that tool or service can be brought into use by caBIG/NCI and in what time frame.
Deliverables
This section should provide the list of deliverables with their respective due dates.
Deliverable |
Description |
Due Date |
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Draft List - Tools |
Draft list of terminology authoring tools and environments |
Oct 10 |
Draft List - Requirements |
Stable draft of requirements/features that will be used to compare tools |
Oct 19 |
Update at F2F in Atlanta |
Tentative, if enough to show, and an appropriate slot exists |
Oct 20 |
Draft Table - Tools vs Features |
Draft table of tools/ environments vs features/requirements |
Oct 30 |
Annotated Table - Tools vs Features |
Annotated table of tools/ environments vs features/requirements |
Nov 15 |
Final Documents |
Final requirements/features and annotated table |
Nov 30 |
Background and Purpose
caBIG has in place a critical component of semantic interoperability, a Terminology Service (LexEVS as an implementation at NCI) for serving or publishing terminologies. Another component necessary is a terminology authoring tool for creating and editing terminologies. caBIG will soon be ready for a distributed terminology services, one need is to provide a choices for terminology authoring service for those institutions (including NCI) which desire to author (as well as serve) terminologies in the context of caBIG (eg, served thru the caGrid). This document serves as a charter for a small group to do market research on possible terminology authoring tools that satisfy terminology authoring best practices and caBIG/NCI needs.
Group Organization, Roles, and Responsibilities
This section should provide an overview on the members of the small group and their roles and responsibilites.
Member Name |
Role |
Responsibilities |
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Sherri de Coronado |
Coordinator |
Lead, facilitate, set up meetings, meet deadlines |
Larry Wright |
Co-Coordinator |
ditto |
Cecil Lynch (Ontoreason) |
VCDE contractor |
Core Research and document production |
Solbrig/ Pathak (Mayo) |
VCDE contractor |
Core Research and document production |
Russ Hamm (Apelon) |
VCDE contractor |
Core Research and document production |
Keith Campbell (Informatics Inc) |
VCDE contractor |
Core Research and document production |
Stan Huff (Intermountain Healthcare) |
volunteer |
Provide domain expertise and end user viewpoint |
James Cimino (NIH/Laboratory for Informatics Development) |
volunteer |
Provide domain expertise and end user viewpoint |
Brian Davis |
advisor |
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Work to date:
Wikipedia site with list of authoring tools / 2007 survey of ontology tools
Draft of Requirements (Larry Wright, Sherri De Coronado and Gilberto Fragoso)
Gforge site
Wiki Site (Brian/ Sherri)
