2017.12 Proposed F2F Agenda Topics

Discuss the accomplishments of the past year and the future direction of EVS

Larry Wright

Margaret Haber

Sherri De Coronado

Gilberto Fragoso

User Group Discussion

• CTRP
• caDSR
• FDA
• CDISC

Teams to share how they are using LexEVS and additional usage requirements they may have.

Services/updates for our customers - Discuss how to update LexEVS customers with jar files when updating LexEVS versions

• Releases need to be backwards compatible

Discuss evolving to all REST services and possibility of retiring the Java API

• What needs to be enhanced in the REST API need to support our Java API customers.

caDSR contact

Discuss Potential of using a variety of architectures

• Discuss potential use of micro services
• Need to determine how to synchronize data on the back-end
  
  • LexEVS DB and Triple Store need to be in sync when NCIt information (such as value sets) changes. 
• Discuss the potential of a loader that relies on SPARQL queries
  • • After SPARQL query load, kick off LexEVS loader

LexEVS integration with EVS Triple Store

• Discuss using triple store calls in parallel with LexEVS DB
  • Explore if the EVS triple store offers performance improvements over LexEVS DB
  • Discuss what calls could be made to the triple store.
• Discuss Stardog and its built in graph database. (Note that Stardog is proprietary and NCI may switch out at a future date.)
  • Performance considerations for hierarchy traversal for graph resolution.

Gilberto Fragoso

Kim Ong

Tracy Safran

Rob Wynne

Larry Wright

Margaret Haber

Sherri De Coronado

Systems team

John Cambell /Ruth Monterio users of the SQARL

EVS Project Group Discussion (During regular call-in time)

Discuss direct calls to NCIt for value sets

• Performance
• Workflow
• API Implications

Discuss Mappings and cross-walking coding schemes

•  SwissProt, ICD-0-3, and MED-RT as the successor of NDRFT
  
  • Associations from/to
  • Cross walking coding schemes
  • Loader considerations for Mesh, RxNorm

Kim Ong

Tracy Safran

Rob Wynne

Editor's Representative/Margaret Haber

Larry Wright

Sherri De Coronado

NCI Systems Discussions

• CI and Docker Status/Roadmap
• Tech Stack Upgrades

Discuss CI and Docker Status/Roadmap

• Discuss the current status of the Docker scripts used to build/test LexEVS components.
  • Discuss the current NCI Docker images used in LexEVS tests.
• Discuss NCI's current status and future plans to use Docker.

Discuss Tech Stack Upgrades

• Discuss DB upgrade: MySQL 5.6 vs. MariaDB

Discuss migrating from Anthill Pro to Jenkins

Jacob and Systems team

Gilberto Fragoso

Rob Wynne

Tracy Safran

Kim Ong

Larry Wright

Margaret Haber

Sherri De Coronado

Q/A (Sana)

Discuss a new REST API to supplement CTS2 REST Services

• Examine current CTS2 REST API
  • Discuss what doesn't work for the end users.
  • Discuss gap between Remote API and REST services.
• Discuss user requirements for a new REST API
  • Document the gaps from CTS2 REST API and user requirements.

Discuss surfacing terminology history in a REST service (NCIt and ULMS)

• Determine what history information is required by the user to be returned.
• Discuss if this fits into LexEVS or is part of a new REST API

Discuss surfacing history of value sets in a REST service

Discuss REST service - simple searches and searches with an identifier and how this could replace most of the remote API

Kim Ong

Tracy Safran

Rob Wynne

End users such as CTRP, others

Larry Wright

Margaret Haber

Sherri De Coronado