HL7 Tooling Challenge

This page is to record the ideas to create an HL7 Tooling Challenge similar to the Government Challenge initiative - see examples under Health at: Government Challenge

The theme requested was to produce tooling to help implementers implement V3 standards which are expressed in Model Interchange Format.

• The Model Interchange Format is organized as a set of XML Schema files that describe the key metadata to express published standards. The MIF is used to transform the approved models as serialized XML files. The MIF was designed to meet the requirements of the V3 Methodology to express concepts that could not be expressed in XMI.
  • Requirements for MIF[1]
• The following ideas were proposed - we haven't decided which of these ideas will be proposed, although we have concluded that the second proposal should be postponed as it is dependent on the first idea.
  1. Produce a UML Profile for MIF Static Models - This is a task so that other modeling tools have a chance to be configured to understand MIF
  2. Produce a MIF to XMI XML transform consistent with an updated UML Profile - This task is dependent on the completion of task 1.
  3. Produce a viewer that can browse MIF schemas (Meta level)- this task makes it easier to understand the relationship among the MIF files and their elements.
  4. Produce a viewer that can browse MIF based models (model level)- this task makes it easier to understand the serialized models expressed in MIF XML.
  5. Produce a viewer that can browse instances from MIF based models (instance level) - this task makes it easier to evaluate instances based on serialized MIF models.(there is some work that already exists)

• A poll remained open until January 5. An invite was sent out to the Co-chairs list to participate and help identify which tasks fulfill burning needs. No responses were received. This initiative will be marketed during the San Antonio WG and another poll will be send out after that solicit input.

• The Tooling Work Group will describe the criteria on which the submissions will be judged once a challenge has been determined.
• The submission due date will also be identified would the submissions be due - we need to be realistic about how long a challenge might take.

Please put your suggestions on this page - the Tooling WG will review suggestions on the Tooling call Jan.26.