WCI Terminology Server Home

Overview

Welcome to the documentation and resource home for the West Coast Informatics Terminology Server.  This has been developed as a resource for the interested community of developers working with and its constituent terminologies.  The product is offered for use under an Apache 2 license (see Features) and you are welcome to simply begin using it.

This page documents resources, links, and other information to support the Terminology Server.

• Features
• Github Project
• Reference Deployment Sites
  • UMLS Reference Deployment Site - Click here to see the API documentation
  • SNOMEDCT Reference Deployment Site
  • ICD10CM Reference Deployment Site
  • OWL Reference Deployment Site

If you are interested in more guided help or support, please contact us at info@westcoastinformatics.com.  We offer a service to get an environment set up within your IT infrastructure, loaded with your data, and customized for your security requirements.  Please play around on our reference deployment site to get a feel for the APIs and the data model.  

We have successfully loaded this tool with a variety of different subsets, including the SAMPLE meta and the Level 0 + SNOMEDCT subsets.

Admin Documentation

• Prerequisites and Software Dependencies - include file size requirements (small=130M/30M, medium=350M/150M, level0=19G/9G )
• Building and Deploying in Eclipse
• Building and Deploying the Demo
• Reference Deployment Site
  • Deploy Instructions - Details on installing and configuring the reference deployment site
  • Redeploy Instructions - Details on updating an installation when code changes.
• Configuring Swagger
• Installing and Configuring Nginx Gateway
• Installing and Configuring Tomcat 7
• Configuring MySQL
• Admin Tools
  • Create/update DB
  • Lucene Reindex
  • Terminology Loader and Remover
  • QA Tools
• Examples
• Customizations

Technical Documentation

High-level Documentation

• System Architecture
• Persistence Framework
• Auditing and Revision History
• Logging
• Indexing
• Security and User Management
• Concurrency and Locking
• Configuration Settings
• Extension Points
• Domain Model
• Internal Service APIs
• Unit and Integration/Functional Testing

Application Features

• Browsing (and Searching)
• Loading Terminologies
• Editing, Tracking, Workflow
• Project Management
• Identifier Assignment
• Automations
• Processes
  • Insertion Process
  • Maintenance Process
  • Export/Release Process

User Documentation

• Rest API documentation
• REST Clients
• REST Examples

References/Links

• UMLS Documentation
• SNOMED CT Release Format 2 - Refset Specifications v1.0.docx
• SNOMED_CT_Release_Format_2_-_Data_Structures_Specification_v1.0.pdf
• Veterinary Extension - need to "log in" and then click "download"
• Eclipse Setup
• Static Code Analysis
• Developer Space
• Acceptance Criteria for Release
• Benefits of Structured Terminology
• Use Cases for Structured Terminology
• Glossary

Training Videos

• TBD

Test update notifications.