Vietnam welcomes three new grid sites; hospitals get new ‘HOPE’

.... HOPE (HOspital Platform for E-health) developed jointly at CNRS and HealthGrid in France, allows hospital sites to exchange medical information. HOPE is now installed at the Institute of Information Technology in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, for testing. All going well, it will be installed in the primary Ho Chi Minh hospital.... read more..
http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1002120

Updated SDMX-HD Resource page

I updated the PHGrid wiki section on SDMX-HD.... with this link.

PHGrid Community Update

To the PHGrid Community:

Related to significant organizational change currently underway, the internal team supporting the PHGrid activities within NCPHI has transitioned to other projects. To assist in this transition, we have provided many updates to PHGrid documentation (technical and project) posted to the PHGrid wiki (http://wiki.phgrid.net), and to PHGrid-related software in the Google code repository. If anyone has any questions relating to this change, or PHGrid software / services, please don't hesitate to contact me. We look forward to continued PHGrid research activities upon completion of the reorganization. It has been my sincere pleasure to work with the NCPHI PHGrid team (Brian, John, Peter, Dan, Chris, Moses, Joseph).

-- Tom

So long and thanks for all the fish...

Thank you to everyone I've worked with over the years as part of the public health informatics research grid project. I've met some extremely bright individuals and had a chance to collaborate with some extremely rare organizations and groups.

Although moving off the project formally (i.e. I won't get paid for contributing), I'll still be participating through the loose system of collaboration that the project uses to create the blog, wiki and software elements.

Grid Computing Technologies for Geospatial Apps

Grid Computing Technologies for Geospatial Applications:

http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/0/agile/


The gallery is here: http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/0/agile/gallery.html


Standing room only !! or maybe just grab an open seat....

Project statistics

While creating the transition documentation, I ran some stats on the active code base (not including everying in old-projects) using cloc.

I'm not really a fan of measuring quality by number of lines of code (since good programmers produce fewer lines of code than bad but busy programmers), and a lot of this is boilerplate, etc. But I think it's worth noting that with just a limited team, we made 282 classes with 25k lines of Java, 2k lines of JSP, 6k lines of comments and documentation. Nothing massive, but it's a decent body of work.

Language	files	blank	comment	code
HTML	579	19160	9724	161640
Java	282	5420	5594	25656
Javascript	35	3098	2779	14490
XML	136	956	998	9448
XSD	20	146	99	4228
SQL	126	425	769	3840
JSP	20	357	95	2368
CSS	12	158	140	1460
Bourne Shell	1	2	0	7
SUM:	1211	29722	20198	223137

Enhanced PHGrid portal wireframe

So, as a step better than a jpg, the PHGrid portal demo is now web-based. Kudos to Chris.

Click HERE to launch...

Code transfer

I finished moving all of the active source projects from sourceforge to google code to support our transitioning off the project.

The following subprojects have been successfully moved (GIPSEPoisonService, GIPSEService, GIPSEServiceInstaller, gmap-polygon, gridviewer were all moved prevously:

• GridMedlee: from sf to gc.


• PHGridLanding: from sf to gc.


• SecureSimpleTransfer: from sf to gc.


• gipse-dbimporter: from sf to gc.


• gipse-store: from sf to gc.


• gipse-poly-web: from sf to gc.


• loader-gmaps-poly: from sf to gc. (this includes the CSVs for settng up the gridviewer GIS tables)


• npds-gmaps: from sf to gc.


• npds-gmaps-web: from sf to gc.


• poicondai: from sf to gc.)


• schemas: from sf to gc. (this includes the schemas and example xml for the GIPSE services)

The sf projects will be left intact so as not to break any links, but all activity will be made on the google side from today onward.

Successful GIPSEService test

Forgot to post that last week Ron Price and I successfully tested a deployment of the GIPSEService at the Denver DOH.

Ron, working with Art Davidson, set up a synthetic aggregate data set and then he deployed an instance of the GIPSEService (8/31 gipse spec from the SVN repository).

I was then able to submit a test query from the NCPHI Lab using lab credentials that was successfully processed by the GIPSEService and sent back a response document containing the relevant observation set. Also, I tested with inappropriate credentials from unauthorized locations and I was not able to access the service (as expected since Ron's security controls prevent access by unauthorized users or locations).

Sir Tim Berners-Lee: The Semantic Web Has Arrived and the Obama Administration is "Onboard"

http://www.beet.tv/2009/10/sir-tim-bernerslee-the-semantic-web-has-arrived-and-the-obama-administration-is-onboard.html