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Desktop Publication
Desktop Publication is a capability whereby Publishing Facilitators for particular domains or projects can manage their content, validate the completeness of that content, evaluate it for quality assurance issues, package it for submission as ballot content, and most importantly create a local replica of what their content will look like when included in a ballot.
This capability reflects a combination of processes from various tools operating in a controlled file environment, and using ANT driven scripts to invoke sub-processes supported by those tools. The tools involved include:
- Publishing Processes - the set of ANT scripts and transforms used at HL7 Head Quarters (HQ) to produce and test each V3 ballot site.
- V3 Generator - the set of ANT scripts and transforms used by HL7 HQ and others to convert the output files from the PubDb and Static Model Designer (see below) into MIF2 representation files; complete message and interaction schemas; html "table views" of each static model; and an Excel view of each static model.
- PubDb The Set of VBA code, table and form definitions that allows use of an Access data base to define and manage individual domains according to the constraints expressed in the HL7 methodology.
- HL7 RMIM Designer (in Visio) a combination of Visio stencils and detailed VBA code that supports "drag-and-drop" static model design while simultaneously invoking the constraints and content rules expressed in both the Hl7 Methodology, and the RIM and Vocabulary specifications.
- RoseTree - which supports the RMIM Designer (in Visio), HL7 PubDb, and vocabulary MIF assembly by providing automated access to the HL7 design repository (holds RIM and Vocabulary content) and command line processes that allow ANT scripts to invoke processes in the RMIM Designer and PubDB.
- Additional ANT scripts and transforms to support the integration of these tools, and the definition and execution of manifest generation, submission packaging, and quality assurance testing.
