Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce yet another step forward in delivering one-click
install of highly flexible and useful open source software for clinicians
and researchers.
LiveOIO-1.0.6 provides OIO-1.0.6 with 22 pre-built forms, an example
schedule, and several workflows (patient screening and schizophrenia
study).
Thanks to Tim Churches and Adrian Midgley's strong advocacy, we now have
single-click, database backup and restore of OIO metadata and data via
icons on the Desktop:
1) backup (creates /home/knoppix/publicdb.zip)
2) restore (converts /home/knoppix/publicdb.zip back into publicdb in
PostgreSQL)
3) saveToUSB (copies publicdb.zip to USB storage device)
4) readFromUSB (copies publicdb.zip from USB to /home/knoppix).
This means we can create custom demo data and save them to USB storage
device (USB memory sticks are plug-and-play via Knoppix). Forms,
workflows, patient, and other OIO data can be saved and reload back into
PostgreSQL for the next demo session. The same mechanism can also be used
to simplify backup/restore of PostgreSQL database in production
environment (running Knoppix/Debian from hard drive).
While LiveOIO-1.0.6 comes configured to use USB device, it is clearly
quite simple to slightly modify the saveToUSB and readFromUSB methods to
save to and restore from any local (e.g. floppy drive) or remote network
drive.
An interesting implication is that it is now possible to build OIO
production servers that run entirely from CD-ROM and RAM - with periodic
auto-backup to networked storage or solid state memory, like USB connected
flash drives.
You can download LiveOIO-1.0.6 from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=9295
md5sum=6d2be033537e6847fff97cad5b20c8e6
(Thanks to Pieter for our new LiveOIO version naming convention.
LiveOIO-1.0.6 was originally going to be LiveOIO-1.0.0.rc3.)
Your criticism and comments are sincerely invited.
Best regards,
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org
