Hello I'm working as a consultant to a large academic institution, implementing a customized version of CTAKES as a layer in a larger warehouse of clinical data. Although the institution is singular, there could be multiple "virtual" users - call them departments or projects that are having data processed on their behalf.
While I have created my own REST implementation, I've seen that the API versions that are referenced on the CTAKES website also just do a single UMLS authentication at startup. So different consumers can, in fact, have their documents processed under the auspices of a single UMLS identity. I can think of several architectural solutions to this issue, with various impacts on performance, but I'd like to know what is the official position on offering Ctakes as a service in an Academic setting. Would the rules be different from a service, that for example, exposed pure Metamap? There are some pages online that refer to this situation. Peter
