Atomic is a good clean way to containerize and run a service oriented architecture, which is 100% open source. Open to other ideas as well.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:40 PM, David Kincaid <kincaid.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <d...@daviddonohue.com> 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 > > > -- jay vyas
