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

The Tooling Work Group would like to recognize the volunteer efforts of people who have worked on tools used by HL7 and it`s members to design, publish and then adopt HL7 specifications. The tools are available either on HL7`s Gforge site or as Open Health Tool projects. Please notify the co-chairs if you become aware of other volunteers and their tools. Toolsmith ribbons are being included in Working Group packets to increase awareness and recognition for their efforts.

Name	Tool	Purpose
George 'Woody' Beeler	RoseTree & Design Repository	Static Model and Vocabulary Browser
Lloyd McKenzie	RMIM Designer, MIF & V3 Generator	Visio Static Model Designer, Model Interchange Format and V3 Generator
Peter Rontey	HL7 Messaging Workbench	V2 Messages Profiles and Testing
Dale Nelson	V3 Generator	Generates V3 Schemas
Jean Duteau	V3 Generator	Generates V3 Schemas
Frank Oemig	V2 Access Database	V2 Messaging structures
Grahame Grieve	Data Types MIF	Model Interface Format definition for Datatypes
Charlie McCay	Ramses Schema Validator & V3 Generator	V3 Schema Validation Testing and tool to generate V3 schema
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	Model Driven Health Tools	CDA Templates Designer with UML output
Harold Solbrig	Vocabulary Manager	Manages HL7 V3 Vocabulary structures
Russ Hamm	Vocabulary Manager	Manages HL7 V3 Vocabulary structures
Ted Klein	OID Registry	Manages HL7 OID Registry
Cecil Lynch	OID Registry	Manages HL7 OID Registry
Austin Kreisler	Pub DB	Publication Database

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. The current installation of the HL7 GForge/SVN platform is hosted by the GForge Group, LLC. The HL7 GForge site is intended to:
  • Serve as a central resource point for publishing, downloading, maintenance and support of non-commercial HL7 tools.
  • Provide a tool for other HL7 Work Group to manage project artifacts.
  • Simplify and coordinate the tooling and other committee maintenance processes by providing standardized mechanisms for requesting features, reporting defects and requesting support.
  • Support HL7 tool users in reporting issues with tools and tracking their resolution.
  • Enable release management and version control for tools and other Work Group artifacts.
  • 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
• Migrate RIM Maintenance to OTS UML Modeling Tool
• 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