Administration
2010/03/08
caGrid News
March caGrid User Group Call
The monthly caGrid User Group meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 18.
Topic: OpenMDR
caGrid Community Projects, endorsed by the caGrid Knowledge Center, enables developers to contribute components and extensions to the caGrid community. The effort provides community members with infrastructure (repository and testing), mentorship, best practices and community awareness that together facilitate community development and adoption of their projects. Projects are contributed by developers from multiple caGrid-based grids including caBIG, Cardio Vascular Research Grid (CVRG) and the Translational Informatics and Data Management Grid (TRIAD).
These User Group Meetings are an ideal place to present and discuss these community projects. Over the next several calls we will spend some time focusing on different Community Projects. This will give you an opportunity to see the great work that the caGrid community is capable of accomplishing.
The caGrid Knowledge Center is happy to welcome Rakesh Dhaval, Ohio State University Medical Center Application Architect, as our featured presenter. Rakesh will be presenting the OpenMDR Community Project.
OpenMDR is a caGrid Community Project sponsored by the CTSA supplement at The Ohio State University and in use on the Translational Informatics and Data Management Grid (TRIAD). The OpenMDR project is a suite of software that provides caGrid-compatible semantic metadata management capabilities. The suite includes four different components: 1) MDR Core, 2) MDR Query, 3) MDR Plugin, and 4) MDR Domain Model Generator.
MDR Core - an ISO11179-compliant Metadata registry that stores semantic metadata for a domain or institution. MDR Core is extended from UK cancergrid's cgMDR project (http://cancergrid.org
). MDR Core is capable of storing, versioning and maintaining semantic metadata in the form of Common Data Elements (CDEs). Core provides a web frontend for users to create, edit, deploy and re-use CDEs for new UML model development.
MDR Query - An API and Grid Service that supports federated query and retrieval of semantic metadata from repositories across the Grid, including MDR Core and caBIG caDSR.
MDR Plugin - an Enterprise Architect plug-in that allows a modeler to search for relevant semantic metadata using the MDR Query Grid Service. The modeler then annotates the UML model with the chosen CDEs.
MDR Domain Model Generator - a tool used by a caGrid service developer to generate a caGrid domain model from an annotated UML model. This component provides caGrid compatibility by generating a caGrid domain model, an artifact that is required to create a semantically-annotated caGrid Data Service.
OpenMDR: http://cagrid.org/display/mdr/Home
Agenda:
- Update on caGrid
- New GAARDS-UI 1.3 User Guide
- OpenMDR Released
- Target Discussion
- Rakesh Dhaval, Application Architect, Ohio State University Medical Center
- Open Floor: Issues, concerns, and questions on caGrid
The Knowledge Center continues to request recommendations for User Group presenters. Please email knowledge@cagrid.org to to recommend a Topic.
Meeting info:
When: Thursday, February 18 at 11:00am Eastern
Teleconference: 1-800-619-0279 Passcode: 91671
Centra: http://ncicb.centra.com
Centra Meeting ID: CAGRID_USER
Guest Attend URL: http://mt202.centra.com/GA/main/0000006d6aa0000001211ed7786dccd5
2010/03/04
GAARDS UI 1.3 User Guide
A GAARDS UI User Guide has been created to assist users and Grid administrators in security related tasks. The guide compiles "how-to" instructions for tasks in Dorian, Grid Grouper, GTS, and CDS. These tasks include but are not limited to the management of: user accounts, host certificates, group privileges, certificate authorities, and credentials.
You can find the GAARDS 1.3 User Guide in the GAARDS UI project.