This section provides an overview of the key tools that are expected to address the Semantic Infrastructure requirements. Tools are a combination of applications, user interfaces and services that address a specific Semantic Infrastructure requirement. The tool description provides a user view of how the tools may be used to perform specific tasks.
This section includes the following:
ECCF Registry and User Interface
The ECCF registry interface will provide a single interface for accessing all the artifacts and service metadata. Users will be able to use the interface to perform:
Artifact Search and Access
- Search the registry for model
- Search CTS 2 for existing value sets
- Search the OID registry for an appropriate identifier route
- Retrieve an existing model from the registry
- Retrieve schemas and form definitions
- Import a new model for annotation (binding to terminology and value-sets)
- Retrieve the value set from CTS 2 and apply to the model attributes
Artifact Authoring
- Create a new value set (leveraging terminology services) and manage existing artifacts
- Register the object identifier with its metadata
- Register a new artifact in the registry with its metadata (including ECCF specific information), traceability to support provenance
- Link the models to existing models, domains, or both and classify artifacts
- Constrain existing models
- Constrain existing data-types
- Link artifacts to service specifications
- Dupport collaborative development of metadata
Artifact Governance and Lifecycle Management
- Initiate artifact workflow
- Monitor the workflow process
- Allow curators to set the status of a model and receive change notifications
- Customize review and approval workflows
- Govern collaborative development
Artifact Analysis
- Execute semantic queries for search and analysis
Access Control and Policy Management
- Establish templates and policies that can be applied to artifacts
- Link the users security and access rights to a particular governance and workflow
- Execute semantic queries for analysis
- Identify dependencies
Search and Access Services
- Discover services
- Execute complex queries to identify services
- Discover contracts at runtime
Administer Services and Specifications
- Create a new service specification
- Create and edit service metadata
- Link the artifacts to the service specification
- Construct conformance statements
- Run validations on specification and supporting artifacts
- Apply constraints, rules and policies
- Constrain and reuse existing specifications and artifacts
Analyze Services
- Execute semantic queries for analysis
- Perform impact analysis to identify dependencies and constraints
Service Governance and Workflows
- Initiate service specification governance
- Monitor the workflow and approval process
- Allow governance team to set the status of specification and promote
- Manage versioning and localization of the service specifications
- Govern collaborative development
Plug-ins, Loaders and Miscellaneous Development Tools
Plug-ins and development tools are extensions to existing tools to support better integration with the ECCF registry:
- Publish artifacts from eclipse and other modeling tools to the ECCF registry
- Publish content from external tools to the ECCF registry, with support for topic maps and DITA
- Extract and load metadata from artifacts into registry
Forms Editor
An end user tool for creating and editing forms:
- Create form definitions
- Retrieve models, data-types and value-sets
- Define skip patterns, layout and display options
- Publish forms to ECCF registry
- Reuse and leverage predefined templates
Conformance Testing Framework
A testing framework for developing automated test scripts that can be executed against an artifact or service.
- Retrieve artifact metadata and conformance statements
- Generate test scripts
- Execute conformance tests
- Generate conformance report
