It should be noted that NIH already has a UMLS web service: https://uts.nlm.nih.gov//home.html#apidocumentation
- Dave On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:17 PM, David Donohue <[email protected]> wrote: > @Jay > Agreed cloud hosting is the way to go. What advantages do you see with > Project Atomic over others like PaaS? > > @Taposh > So kind of you to offer to help with hosting. Let's collaborate! > > Considerations would be licensing and also cost. Is anyone aware of any > special licensing considerations that would apply if we were to host cTAKES > (and UMLS) as a public web service? > I just reread the cTAKES and UMLS license agreements. I am no legal expert > but I did not see anything to prohibit this. > Would we need to issue API keys to ascertain that users had signed off on > our (Apache + UMLS) terms? > > I am profoundly ignorant of cTAKES as well. I have never set it up or even > used it. After installation we would need to expose it in a Rest web > service. Many considerations there (DoS attacks, etc). Recommendations > welcome! > > Does it make sense to anyone to concomitantly expose search of UMLS as a > webservice? Would this require a separate Solr/Elasticsearch instance? > > Dave Donohue >
