munging metadata

We load the CDISC Controlled Terminology (CT) published by the NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) into the SHARE metadata repository (MDR). When we're through catching up with our backlog we'll have more CT in SHARE than any other type of metadata, and we'll publish the quarterly CT content to the SHARE Exports page on the CDISC web site. One of the main differences in how we load the CT is that we load only the incremental changes. That is, we load the differences by generating diff files that contain only the changes between the packages published in the current quarter and those published in the previous quarter. The diff files are available for download, or they can be generated using the NCI's Diff program . This program is a Java application, and it is simple to set up on most machines. The Diff application is easy to use and can generate diff files for any two versions of a delimited text CT package. The two packages used to generate the diff file do not ...

If you're wondering where the XML standards like Define-XML went on the CDISC website, they've moved. They're now located under Standards/Transport . If you go to the transport page  you can select from a fairly extensive menu of transport standards. There are a few transport options located elsewhere, such as Lab  and the Analysis Results Metadata  Define-XML extension. Our broad list of XML standards is in the process of welcoming a new version of Define-XML to the family. This new version of Define-XML, v2.1, will almost certainly be listed in the standards catalogs of regulatory authorities at some point, so all of you working on regulatory submissions should find this update interesting. There are a couple weeks left in the Public Review period (it ends on May 5th) so there's still time to add your comments. You can find the Define-XML v2.1 Public Review package  along with instruction for adding JIRA comments on the CDISC wiki . While Define-XML v2.1 is a m...