Project Overview

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Project Overview
Object Specification for the 11179 Presented at
the Open Forum on Metadata Registries Washington
DC 1999 February 16-19
Thomas C. Culpepper 3M Health Information
Systems Applied Technology Research - Care
Innovation Suite tcculpepper_at_wpmail.code3.com (801
)265-4534
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Description

• This work focuses on defining the methods that
  are needed to provide a read-only service
  specification better known as the Metadata Query
  Service (MQS). The MQS will provide a way to
  access the information in a metadata registry in
  a well-defined way.

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Project Goals

• Add methods to the X3.285 Unified Modeling
  Language (UML) Model which will become the
  normative section for part 3 of the 11179.
• Develop an Interface Definition Language (IDL)
  read-only specification based on the methods
  defined on the X3.285 UML model.
• Identify additional attributes.

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Benefits

• Methods
• Specify the operations that an object is prepared
  to perform.
• IDL
• Separates the interface from the implementation.
• Attributes
• OOAD is iterative and as new things are
  discovered they need to be reflected back into
  the model that will potentially make the model
  more complete.

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Tasks
Parallel
Current

• Develop Use-Cases.
• Align the use cases with the UML model of the
  11179.
• Incorporate Use-Cases into the informative
  section of the draft.
• Prioritize 11179 into areas of most importance.
• Develop the IDL and incorporate into the
  normative section of the draft.
• Test IDL against the use cases and model.

• Engage Local International Participation.
• Establishing Liaison relationships with Object
  Management Group (OMG).

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Schedule

• Finalize NWI proposal. (October 21, 1998)
• Distribute documents to ftp site (October 26,
  1998)
• Distribute the working draft. (by November 9,
  1998)
• Editing session. (February 9-11, 1999 Washington
  DC)
• Send NWI to SC32 to then be forwarded to JTC1.
  (February 12, 1999 Washington DC)
• Session to plan prototyping. (May 1999 Japan)
• Committee draft of standard. (July 1999)
• Ballot on CD. (November 1999)
• Editing session (January 2000)
• Final CD. (January 2000)

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Current Status

• Stewardship
• The methods for this part of the model have been
  completed.
• Started developing the IDL.

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Players
Possible International
U.S.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• HCFA
• EPA
• U.S. DoD Health Affairs
• U.S. Geological Survey
• U.S. Bureau of Census

• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Japan
• Korea
• UK

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Where to find information

• ftp//sdct-sunsrv1.ncsl.nist.gov/l8/sc32wg2/projec
  ts/11179obj/