1. SAIF Effects on Interoperability Reviews WG Baris E. Suzek May, 25, 2010

2. Agenda Administration/announcements Status of Whitepaper SAIF Interoperability Review Artifacts Team Recommendations Next Steps

3. Administrative/announcements Note taker for today’s call Next meeting (ad hoc) on 5/27/2010 3-4PM ET

4. Status of Whitepaper https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/SAIF+Interoperability+Reviews+- +White+Paperhttps://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/SAIF+Interoperability+Reviews+- +White+Paper Updates since last week (Group Report)

5. Artifacts From training: From implementation guide pilot activity: https://gforge.nci.nih.gov/svnroot/cabiodb/ECCF/artifacts/ECCF_Specificat ion_Artifacts.dochttps://gforge.nci.nih.gov/svnroot/cabiodb/ECCF/artifacts/ECCF_Specificat ion_Artifacts.doc

6. Artifacts Platform-specific specification artifacts E.g. message information model, interfaces etc. What is needed for caGrid? What is needed for Web services?

7. Artifacts https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/SAIF+Interoperability+Reviews+- +White+Paper+-+Artifactshttps://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/SAIF+Interoperability+Reviews+- +White+Paper+-+Artifacts Technology binding/Implementation artifacts What is needed for a Java implementation of services? How their conformance can be tested? Need “technology” expertise to provide an example set of artifacts (e.g..NET) and possible test suite content

8. Team http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/ctg/conformance Testing Laboratory [Review team?] Prepare test results in accordance with the appropriate testing policy Certificate of validation requirements Conduct conformance testing in accordance with the prescribed procedures Certification Authority [GT?] Establishes and maintains the conformance testing program policies and procedures Approves the test suites used in determining conformance of implementations Control Board [ESST?] Resolve differences in interpretations or queries on the test suite or test procedures Enterprise Specification review [CAT?]

9. Team Review team Knowledge of platforms and platform-specific artifacts Capable of running test suites (manual and semi-automated steps) and generating the reports for certification Representation of all viewpoints and expertise to test conformance assertions Some tooling is needed: Some assertions can be tested automatically (e.g. checking WSDLs or XSDs) Some assertions will need libraries of test cases E.g. To test semantic profiles referring to vocabularies within a domain having a library of sampling true-negative and true-positive terms Some assertions will need business viewpoint (domain expertise) and manual review/validation

10. Recommendations https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/SAIF+Interoperability+Reviews+- +White+Paper+-+Recommendationshttps://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/VCDE/SAIF+Interoperability+Reviews+- +White+Paper+-+Recommendations Organization of Artifacts Finding/versioning specifications/artifacts Project pages Tooling Test Suites(?) Training Training reviewers?

11. Next Steps Whitepaper F2F Presentation