Loading Core Terminologies

The process of loading core terminologies comprises 2 steps:

1. specifiy the terminologies to load by editing a configuration file and
2. initiate the loading by executing a script.

When loading vocabularies through the hereinafter described strategy, it should be considered that

1. changes are made to the store instance that is currently defined in setting.json
2. the server instance will be shut down for the period of loading and
3. any already loaded vocabulary will be deleted

Edit cts2_conf.xml

The file cts2_conf.xml is located in the directory that was specified as CTS2LE_RESOURCE_ROOT during the installation process. When receiving a CTS2-LE distribution, this file will comprise a reference to any terminology for which the user has obtained a license. The XML-structured file lists the available terminologies under the element vocabularies. A specific vocabulary is defined by a friendly-name and a resourceID, for example the UCUM code system will appear as the following line:

<!-- not enabled for loading -->
<vocabulary load="false" friendly-name="Unified Code for Units of Measure" resourceID="ucum"/>

The friendly name is a human readable name for a terminology and may be modified by the user if he prefers a different designation. However, the attribute resourceID must not be changed as it is a system intern identifier for the terminology. To load a vocabulary, the attribute load has to be set to true.

<!-- enabled for loading -->
<vocabulary load="true" friendly-name="Unified Code for Units of Measure" resourceID="ucum"/>

There are no restrictions concerning the amount of terminologies that can be loaded in one run, thus a user might enable any available resource before saving the file.

Running the loading script

Navigate to the bin-directory located in CTS2LE_RESOURCE_ROOT and execute the script WebCts2LEStarter.sh by running

./WebCts2LEStarter.sh

See Also

To get a deeper understanding of how a terminology is represented by means of CTS2, please visit Mapping Terminologies to CTS2-LE.