Thanks Thien, really appreciate it! Cheers, Chris
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Nguyen, Thien wrote: > Thanks for the information. I'll check this out and figure out our next > [baby] steps. > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Kale [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:27 PM > To: Nguyen, Thien > Cc: Sheryl John; Chris Mattmann; Paul Vee > Subject: Fwd: Getting started > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: David Kale <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM > Subject: Re: Getting started > To: [email protected] > > > Thien, > > Actually, a great place to start would be the attached paper, "An Informatics > Architecture for the Virtual Pediatric Intensive Care Unit" from CBMS 2011, > describing an effort to do data management at Children's Hospital LA in a way > that can scale to multiple institutions, using OODT principles and > components. There are a number of VPICU team members on this list (from both > CHLA and JPL) who would be happy to answer your questions, on the list or > offline. > > My perspective is the following: data integration and management in large > medical institutions and organizations is HARD. That is a simple fact, and > any company or organization who claims to have an out-of-the-box solution is > either deluded or lying. There is some amount of DYI (do it yourself) that > is unavoidable, and so -- in my opinion -- it's best to go with something > that gives you a lot of interoperable but loosely coupled tools, components, > and modules that save you bits of work here and there but are also easily > modified or extended. From that standpoint, OODT and the larger Apache > ecosystem are quite suitable. > > As for specifics, I'd recommend diving into the FileManager and > WorkFlowManager components, though perhaps others would offer different > advice. > > Anyway, sounds like you're clearly heading in the same direction we are, so > we'd be happy to chat more! > > Dave > > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Nguyen, Thien <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm a medical informatics software developer at the Boston Department of >> Veteran Affairs. We are reviewing tools to prototype for use in our systems >> that would help manage, share, and track research information. We have >> genomic data, health records, phenotypic data, and results of nlp/machine >> learning techniques. >> >> OODT sounds like a nice package that we would like to try out, but, >> honestly, the website says very little. I'm not even sure where to begin to >> even try interacting with the downloaded source. Any direction on how to get >> started or lower-level resources to read up on would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Thien >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
