[protege-discussion] UMLS in Protege but not over the network

[Tania Tudorache]

Mitch,

I found the place in code where the tab connects to the UMLS RMI server 
(at //umlsks.nlm.nih.gov/KSSRetriever). Would it help if I would make 
the server name configurable? Of course, this makes sense, only if you 
are able to install the server locally.

It seems that all the interaction with UMLS is made through the KSS-API. 
So, if KSS also supports the interaction directly with a file, then I 
suppose it is not so hard to add this feature to the UMLS-Tab 
implementation. We don't have currently resources to maintaining the 
UMLS Tab, so if you want, please feel free to extend the current 
implementation. If you would like to contribute the source back, we are 
happy to distribute it together with Protege. This seems a feature that 
would be useful to many users.

Tania



Mitch Harris wrote:
> I want to include terms from UMLS in an ontology I'm developing with
> Protege. I have used successfully in the past the UMLSKS service with
> the UMLS tab. But now I happen to be behind a firewall where it is
> possible but a bureaucratic nightmare to get the requisite port
> opened.
>
> Surely it is possible to use Protege with the downloaded UMLS files.
> But possible doesn't mean easy. Is there code/a tab that doesn't use
> an IP address but rather the the local file location? Or some obvious
> solution that I am missing?
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Mitch
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