2015.12 Technical Face-To-Face Meeting Notes

Discussion: Tech Stack Updates

• Migration to Java 8
• Migration to centOS 7
• Migration to Spring 4
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

Discussion: LEXEVS API/Browser Performance and Usability Improvements

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases
• Areas for discussion:
  • value set
  • mapping 
  • multi-namespace
  • relationship querying
  • inferred data
• Discuss the removal of caCORE and refactor Remote API
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

Discussion: Enhancing the LEXEVS CTS2 REST Interface

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases
• Areas for discussion:
  • Expanding to include Associations
  • Specialized REST calls (e.g., bulk download) to CTS2 service framework
  • Provide the capability to use data from one endpoint to query another
  • Provide a framework that includes both CTS2 and Extensions
  • Bulk downloads/special user requirements
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

Information Session: Using LexEVS Query API and CTS2 API

• Overview to demonstrate how to query using LexEVS APIs
• Review of existing LexEVS API documentation
• Open discussion - specific use cases

Kim Ong
Scott Bauer 

Discussion: Coding Scheme Search and Indexing

• Determine requirements/use cases for horizontal coding scheme searches
• Overview of indexing of qualifiers
• Overview of search results in 6.4

Discussion: LEXEVS Loader Improvements

• Discuss known issues for OWL2, MedDRA and HL7 Loaders
• Other loader improvements
• Determine next steps/roadmap

EVS Tools (LexEVS & EVS Focus) Meeting

• Open topics

Tutorial/Discussion: Loader Implementation and Requirements

• Overview of LexEVS Loader development process
• Implement a simple LexEVS loader (hands-on)
• Discussion of entry points into various loaders for purposes of updating

Tracy
Rob
 

Discussion: Triple Store/Graph Database

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases 
• Discuss plans based on Triple Store Capability Research and Analysis wiki pages
• Demo of ArangoDB (https://www.arangodb.com/)
• Determine next steps/roadmap

Discussion: Cloud Considerations

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases for supporting a cloud environment

Discussion: Build and Deployment Process

• DevOps and continuous integration
• Changes for build, deployment and distribution
  • Changes to support 6.4
  • Considerations for Triple Store/Graph DB
  • Considerations for Cloud Infrastructure
• Mayo's continuous integration server
• Demo of Docker
• Determine next steps/roadmap
  

Discussion: Value Set Editor (Authoring)

• NCI to provide requirements/use cases
  

Discussion: The Future of lbGUI

• Discuss future requirements
• Review issues - JIRA and others
• Develop a roadmap to address technical debt
• Determine next steps/roadmap

Debrief

• Prioritize
• Determine next steps/roadmap