Sandbox:Tooling Work Group

Tooling WG

The Tooling Work Group supports the HL7 mission by overseeing the tools that facilitate the development, adoption and use of HL7 standards, according to the requirements of the HL7 Board and membership needs. Tooling Work Group’s responsibility covers tools developed by and for HL7, as well as those tools that HL7 has fostered the development of either by direct solicitation, or by collaboration with HL7-specific projects outside of the organization. It is expected that the Tooling Work Group will provide a more precise framework and guidelines for licensing future HL7 tools.

Standing Conference Calls

The Tooling WG will hold a Conference Call at 2 PM Eastern time, each Thursday except during scheduled face-to-face Working Group Meetings unless otherwise noted at Telecon_Agendas.

Conference Call: Uses HL7 Conference Call Service

Dial 770-657-9270 and enter pass code 586935#

GoToMeeting at 482-299-629

Agenda, Action Items, Minutes	Overview	Topics/Projects
Agendas and Meetings Agendas for Teleconferences that are held every Thursday at 10:00 AM ET Working Agenda for the next WGM Tuesday_Tooling_-_May_2012 Tuesday Tooling Nights lists historical agendas from Tuesday Tooling nights which are led by Andy at each WGM Approved Tooling Work Group Minutes are on HL7.org; draft minutes are on Telecon Agendas HL7 List Services Welcome Center is the HL7 list server where you can subscribe to any of the Tooling lists	The main HL7 Tooling Work Group page has: the Tooling Work Group Mission and Charter list of Co-chairs The Tooling Work Group follows these Decision Making Practices. SWOT analysis Resolved 2011Sept: we prioritize tools: firstly, based on the critical path to ensure standards are produced on a regular basis according to schedule, secondly, based on Board direction and thirdly, subject to available funding to complete an existing tooling project so as not to dilute the ability to fully complete a project.	Hot Topics Tools List discussion - action item assigned to Andy - what the Tooling WG is responsible for, a list of HL7 Tools and links to their documentation, HL7 - Tooling & Electronic Services alignment align the requirements gathering and tool selection processes to ensure resources are available to develop or enhance requests for tools that come to either group that may impact the other group. See PI# 801 Update and upgrade Tooling Communication - review current communications, create a communication plan to ensure interested parties can be fully informed about the Tooling Work Group processes and tools. See PI# 802 Tooling Dashboard - A visual summary in the form of a “dash board” that provides a snapshot of what tools are available and what tooling projects are in process and what progress has been made. See PI# 803 GForge evaluation - Intent to evaluate in depth the change to our GForge provider. See PI# 804
What we are responsible for	Products/Documents	Historical Links
Tooling Liaisons with other work groups provide two-way communication to their respective groups and help the Tooling Work Group keep up with the varying schedules, priorities, interests and issues so that recommendations made to the HL7 Board are consensus recommendations of the entire HL7 community. The Tooling WG also has liaison responsibilities with OHT, SMD, MDHT, IHTSDO WB see Tools List discussion From Tooling Work Group Web Page Overview - Work Products and Contributions to HL7 Processes: The Tooling Work Group, will make recommendations to the HL7 Board and Technical Steering Committee regarding tools support for the HL7 standards. This work group manages the policies and processes that accomplish the functions of requirements management, configuration management, and deployment management of HL7 developed, endorsed, or fostered tools. This includes mechanisms for testing, evaluating, managing releases, funding, and harmonizing tools work from independent sources. For HL7-owned technology and support, this work group will provide guidance for architecture and technical standards, configuration, development scheduling, technical support and infrastructure. Liaises with tool vendors providing software for HL7 member's use and manages license allocation. This work group will provide a forum for tools input and questions from the HL7 membership. This work group will provide tools training and documentation (in cooperation with the Education Work Group).	Toolsmiths 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. Documentation of HL7 Internal Tooling Structure, Metadata, and Semantics, Release 4 is available on GForge as of 9/1/2011 HL7 Tooling FAQs To be evaluated as part of the acceptance of Wilfred's new Tooling documentation - Woody maintains the FAQs Migrate RIM Maintenance to OTS UML Modeling Tool Model Interchange Format (MIF) informative publication Migration of "Domain" Publishing to MIF2 foundation Subversion FAQs HL7 - CDA Template requirements package File:NLM - CDA Template tools requirements.zip 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) 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. GForge Site Administration Creating and Using a Document Tab Control on HL7 Wiki	Tooling Tactical Steps (2010) Tactical Action Items Tuesday Tooling Nights lists historical agendas from Tuesday Tooling nights which are led by Andy at each WGM HL7 Project Homebase reorg 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 OHT Architecture Project Value Proposition Survey Structured Document Template Design Pilot Vocabulary Harmonization Tool Update the Tooling Work Group wiki page - update 2011