CaGrid:EVSService

Overview

The EVS caGrid service allows programs to utilize the caGrid Infrastructure to access EVS information that is currently being produced by NCICB.

The following APIs will be made available thru the EVS grid service:

searchDescLogicConcept: Searches a valid Vocabulary such as NCI Thesaurus and returns Description Logic concepts that meet the search criteria The EVSDescLogicConceptSearchParams will contain Vocabulary Name, the search term and the maximum limit of returned objects Array of DescLogicConcept objects
searchMetaThesaurus: Searches NCI meta thesaurus and returns Meta Thesaurus information that meet the search criteria The EVSMetaThesaurusSearchParams will contain the search term, the CUI, source, short response, score and the maximum number of returned objects Array of MetaThesaurusConcept objects
getHistoryRecords: Searches a valid vocabulary in NCI thesaurus for history information The EVSHistoryRecordsSearchParams will contain vocabulary name and the concept code for which the history information is searched Array of HistoryRecord objects
getVocabularyNames: Returns all the vocabularies present in the Description Logic No Input Array of DescLogicConceptVocabularyName objects
getMetaSources: Used to obtain Meta thesaurus sources No Input Array of Source objects
searchSourceByCode: Searches the Meta Thesaurus based on Source code The EVSSourceSearchParams will contain Source code and abbreviation Array of MetaThesaurusConcept Objects