I can ping ASF infra to see if they offer any vm's for Demo's etc. will revert back to see what I find out.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 23, 2013, at 10:17 AM, "Masanz, James J." <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Andy, > > It's great to see such enthusiasm! > > I like all the ideas. I don't know how we ensure our image doesn't end up out > of date, but I think it's worth doing -- and given the size of our community, > I hope it will be able to be kept up to date. > > I'm not sure where we would host the public demo server, and since keeping > the image itself up to date would be needed in order to keep the live > public/demo server up to date, my thoughts are to start with 2 and 3 and > decide about #1 later. > > -- James > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrew McMurry > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 7:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: cTAKES Virtual Machine update > > "Eating your own dog food" > > I've bundled a NLP appliance containing UMLS and cTAKES and I'm migrating > services to the AWS cloud. > Throughout this process I have extensively documented the steps and I made a > VM target for Ubuntu 13.04. > > I would have used the iDASH appliance but it is no longer maintained and was > way out of date. > From conversations and experiences witth iDASH and NCBO bioportal I strongly > support a VM option for cTAKES downloads. > > Suggestions > > #[ 1 ] Public demo server (instance of VM) > For new users, this is the "hook" that motivates them to get involved BEFORE > licensing and install. > http://bioportal.bioontology.org/annotator > > #[ 2 ] Downloading the public demo server is power ! > http://nlp-ecosystem.ucsd.edu/ > http://bioportal.bioontology.org/virtual_appliance > > #[ 3 ] Example code for each cTAKES component is game changing > > cTAKES has an impressive set of components, but no way to try them out. > http://ctakes.apache.org/components.html > > Whereas you can play with the components of Bioportal, for example > http://data.bioontology.org/documentation > > I'm sharing these experiences and suggestions because I truly do believe they > are crucial and likely more important than any level of new-features that can > be added. > > Hoping this message finds you well. > I will soon circulate a copy of a VM to play around with and get feedback. > > Thoughts? > > --AndyMC >
