LexEVS 6.5.1 PROD Announcement

 

Enterprise Vocabulary Services is pleased to announce the public availability of LexEVS 6.5.1.

LexEVS 6.5.1 is backwards compatible with earlier 6.5.x releases, and should seamlessly support all users of the older 6.5.x APIs.   

For more information, see the LexEVS 6.5.1 Release Notes:

• LexEVS 6.5.1 Release Notes

Browser Release Notes:

• NCI Metathesaurus Browser 2.9 Release Notes
• NCI Term Browser 2.12 Release Notes

The URLs for LexEVS 6.5.1 are:

• LexEVS 6.5.1 API: https://lexevsapi65.nci.nih.gov/
• LexEVS 6.5.1 REST CTS2 Service URL:
  • https://lexevscts2.nci.nih.gov/lexevscts2 (this is the base url)
  • https://lexevscts2.nci.nih.gov/lexevscts2/service
  • https://lexevscts2docs.nci.nih.gov/cts2 (API Documentation)

and for the web browsers:

• Term browser:  https://nciterms.nci.nih.gov/
• NCIm browser:  https://ncim.nci.nih.gov/

Three new properties will be added to the NCI Thesaurus(NCIt) as part of this release.

• One is a data property and the other two are internal administration properties.
• Maps_To - A data property that indicates a term in an external terminology maps to the annotated concept. 
• The annotations (qualifiers) specify which terminology and identifier is the target of the mapping. 

Example:

Publish Value Set - An internal administration property that tags a value set as curated and ready for publication

Term Browser Value Set Description - An internal administration property that provides descriptive text of a value set for use in our Term browser.

 

Please feel free to contact EVS staff at NCIThesaurus@mail.nih.gov  for additional information and to provide feedback as necessary.