Tooling Work Group

HL7 Tooling Work Group.

The mission of the Tooling Work Group is to oversee the tools that facilitate the development, adoption and use of HL7 standards, according to the requirements of the HL7 Board and membership needs.

For details, see

• HL7 Tooling Webpage has the Tooling Work Group Mission and Charter and list of Co-chairs
• Agendas for Teleconferences that are held every Thursday at 10:00 AM ET
• Working Agenda for the next WGM
• HL7 List Services Welcome Center is the HL7 list server where you can subscribe to any of the Tooling lists
• Tooling Work Group Minutes are on HL7.org

Toolsmith Ribbon Recipients

Name	Tool	Purpose
George 'Woody' Beeler	RoseTree & Design Repository	Static Model and Vocabulary Browser
Lloyd McKenzie	RMIM Designer	Visio based Static Model Designer
Peter Rontey	HL7 Messaging Workbench	V2 Messages Profiles and Testing
Dale Nelson	V3 Generator	Generates V3 Schemas
Frank Oemig	V2 Access Database	V2 Messaging structures
Grahame Greive	Data Types MIF	Model Interface Format definition for Datatypes
Charlie McCay	Ramses Validator	V3 Schema Validation Testing
Adam Flinton	NHS V3 XML Processing Utilities	V3 XML Utilities at Open Health Tools
Paul Biron	HL7 V3 XML Publishing	V3 Publishing XML Transforms
Stacey Berger	MAX Prototype	Enterprise Architect Model Automated Extract Prototype
Robert Warden	V2-V3 Mapping	Maps V2 & other data structures to V3 structures
Dave Carlson	MDHT	CDA Templates Designer with UML output
Harold Solbrig	Vocabulary Manager	Manages HL7 V3 Vocabulary structures
Russ Hamm	Vocabulary Manager	Manages HL7 V3 Vocabulary structures

Related links:

• The HL7 Project Homebase on GForge is a project tracking site which allows management of HL7 tools including bug tracking, feature requests and publication of releases.
• Open Health Tools is a related tooling initiative in which HL7 actively participates

Tooling Topics

• Tooling Tactical Steps (Evolving Document)
• Tactical Action Items
• Tools List discussion
• HL7 Project Homebase reorg
• Update the Tooling Work Group wiki page
• Model Interchange Format (MIF)
• Subversion FAQs
• Tuesday Tooling Nights
• OHT Architecture Project Value Proposition Survey

Active Tooling Projects

• HL7 - CDA Template requirements package File:NLM - CDA Template tools requirements.zip
• HL7 - Tooling & Electronic Services alignment
• Implementing OHT Static Model Designer in HL7
• MAX - Model Automated eXchange
• OHT - IHTSDO Workbench
• OHT - HL7 UML Modeling Tools
• OHT - NHS sponsored Static Model Designer
• Project to migrate "Domain" Publishing to MIF2 foundation
• Structured Document Template Design Pilot
• Templates Registry Pilot

Tooling Documentation

Overview

• A variety of tooling documents, including an excellent overview of HL7 tools are maintained as file releases under the Tooling Documentation Project on the Hl7 Gforge site.
• HL7 Tooling FAQs

Acquisition and Installation

• Installing and Configuring HL7 Tools
  • Eclipse Tools Installation Instructions (for tools users)

Tool for Publishing and Static Model Design

• RMIM_Designer_(Visio)_Documentation
• Using the Combined Publishing and Generator Tools (for Facilitators)
• Support page for Vocabulary Submission Tools
• Creating and Using a Document Tab Control on HL7 Wiki
• Preparation for Tooling related Tutorials

Other Documentation

• Source Code for most HL7 Tools is maintained in project-specific Subversion Repositories. These can be located through the SVN tab on the left side of each project page on the HL7 Gforge site.
• Historical info re the HL7 Tooling Collaborative - now superseded by Open Health Tools
  • HTC Tools Roadmap
  • Requirements for the MIF, Repository and Processes HTC Requirements