Author: Craig Stancl, Scott Bauer, Cory Endle
Email: Stancl.craig@mayo.edu, bauer.scott@mayo.edu, endle.cory@mayo.edu
Team: LexEVS
Contract: S13-500 MOD4
Client: NCI CBIIT
National Institutes of Heath
US Department of Health and Human Services
The purpose of this document is to document the technical face to face meeting details between the NCI and Mayo for the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (NCI CBIIT) LexEVS Release 6.3 and LexEVS Release 6.4.
December Face-to-Face (December 8 - 10, 2015)
Meeting Details
NCI Shady Grove Campus
9609 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, MD 20850
http://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/visit
Conference Details
1-866-660-5416 # 2398515
Join WebEx meeting
Meeting number: 732 008 454
Meeting password: 4NCI-new
Attendees
Name | Role | Attend? (Y/N) |
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Wright, Larry | NIH/NCI | |
Fragoso, Gilberto | NIH/NCI | |
De Coronado, Sherri | NIH/NCI | |
Safran, Tracy | NIH/NCI | |
Ong, Kim L | IS | |
Lucas, Jason R | IS | |
Bauer, Scott | Mayo | Y |
Stancl, Craig | Mayo | Y |
Endle, Cory | Mayo | Y |
Wynne, Robert | NIH/NCI | |
Tran, Tin | NIH/NCI [C] | |
Carlsen, Brian | (NIH/NCI) [C] | |
Wong, Joanne | ||
Kuntipuram, Kumar |
Agenda
Tuesday, December 8 | ||||
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Time | Location | Topics | Participants | Notes |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 1W030 | Overview and Planning | ||
9:30 AM - Noon | 1W030 | Discussion: Tech Stack Updates
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Discussion: LEXEVS API/Browser Performance and Usability Improvements
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Noon - 1:00 PM | Lunch | All | ||
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 4W030 | Discussion: Enhancing the LEXEVS CTS2 REST Interface
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2:00 PM - 4:00 PM | 4W030 | Information Session: End User Usage of LexEVS Query API
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4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 4W030 | Overflow/Additional Topics | ||
Wednesday, December 9 | ||||
Time | Location | Topics | Participants | Notes |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 2E914 | Recap and Planning | ||
9:30AM - Noon | 2E914 | Discussion: Coding Scheme Search and Indexing
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Discussion: LEXEVS Loader Improvements
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Noon - 1:00 PM | Lunch | All | ||
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM | 2E914 | EVS Tools (LexEVS & EVS Focus) Meeting
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1:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 2E914 | Tutorial: Loader Implementation
| Tracy | |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 2E914 | Overflow/Additional Topics | ||
Thursday, December 10 | ||||
Time | Location | Topics | Participants | Notes |
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 6E030 | Recap and Planning | ||
9:30 AM - Noon | 6E030 | Discussion: Triple Store/Graph Database
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Discussion: Cloud Considerations
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Discussion: Build and Deployment Process
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Noon - 1:00 PM | Lunch | All | ||
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM | 1W030 | Discussion: Value Set Editor (Authoring)
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| Discussion: The Future of lbGUI
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3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | 1W030 | Debrief
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Topics
- Tech stack updates, esp. Java 8
- Do we need to coordinate LexEVS and tools updates?
- Are there updates other than Java 8 to plan now?
- Need to invite Jacob to tech stack related meetings.
- Discuss update potentially updating Spring to version 4.
- Development process
- Changes to build and distribution process
- DevOps and CI: How Mayo implemented their CI server and what NCI's plan is for their own server.
- Loaders
- how to create one from scratch
- Create a simple example of a loader
- Point out places in code where simple updates can be made for different loaders.
- how to create one from scratch
- End user approach to LexEVS
- Tutorial on how to query the LexEVS API
- Review of existing LexEVS documentation
- CTS2 REST services
- Expand to include associations?
- Relationship of specialized REST calls (e.g., bulk download) to CTS2 service framework.
- Discussion about one client should be able to connect to multiple instances of a service. Can one endpoint provide data to query against another? How can CTS2 be used in a manner that provides uri's that are not a part of the local resources.
- Future uses/extensions of resolver
- Discuss a REST Framework that includes CTS2 and other calls (extensions)
- CTS2 REST vs additional (extensions) REST calls like bulk download
- Discuss a REST Framework that includes CTS2 and other calls (extensions)
- Loaders
- Issues with OWL2, MeDRA and HL7.
- Tutorial/education on creating and using loaders.
- GUI updates
- RDF Triple Store or graph database LexEVS backing
- End-user Value Set editor
- Model updates to support additional Value Set functionality
Horizontal Coding Scheme searches
- Browser/LexEVS performance
Optional Tasks (from SOW, for reference):
- LEXEVS API Performance and Usability Improvements
- LEXEVS Loader Improvements
- Enhancing the LEXEVS CTS2 REST Interface
- Cloud Support