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Attendees:
Jamie Thomas (Regenstrief)
David Poreda (OGAC/PwC)
Rachel Lucas (USAID)
Dana Juthe (OGAC CIT - PwC)
Vlad Shioshvili (MEASURE Evaluation)
Stacey Berlow (MEARURE Evaluatin)
Angad Dhindsa (MEASURE Evaluation)
Denise Johnson (MEASURE Evaluation)
Martin Namutso (BAO)
Jennifer Shivers (Regenstrief)
Annah Ngaruro (MEASURE Evaluation)
Angela Dormagen (USAID M/CIO)
Jim Grace (HISP)
James Kariuki (CDC)
Mark DeZalia (OGAC)
Lorinne Banister (Regenstrief)
Jason Pickering (HISP/UiO)
Josephine Mungurere-Baker (BAO)
Briana Lozano (CDC)
Donna Medeiros
Lon Gowen (USAID/M/CIO)
Andreea Bealle (CDC)
Vilma Thomas (CDC)
Amy Wald (CDC)
Agenda:
- SIMS sample ADX and DXF messages: Vlad/Annah
Materials:
Minutes:
Denise - No meetings the next two Wednesday's. Next call January 6th - Umbrella call, agenda will go out to the mailing list.
- SIMS sample ADX and DXF messages: Vlad/Annah
- Sample ADX and DXF messages sent via email from Angad. Also availible on this page by clicking the tools button on the top right of this page and going to attachments.
- Naming convention that is being used in the data exchange code list - would need to reference back to the SIMS specific codes
- Will be publishing a more detailed data dictionary.
- Periods use the XML format. For SIMS 2.0 it will try to identify data by dates.
- SIMS has two period formats - periods of the SIMS vist and the assessment period.
- Cover sheet data is being finalized - hard date of the 12/18. If the DATIM Data Exchange group needs to make any changes how would this happen? Mary will follow up and insure that the DATIM Data Exchange group does a line review of the SIMS data.
- Input will be provided by the 18th
- No restriction on amount of data sent at once through the ADX message - as long as the data is under 1 GB the server should we able to handle it.
- Will there be an acknowledgement sent to the user that will give feedback on how many records were imported/updated/ignored
- Will let you know which values were not sucessfuly imported
- Moving towards ADX as being the standard - would like developers to start getting prepared for this using the samples.
- There are four ways the data can be imported and this information is applicable to all of them.
- Is the API of DATIM versioned? - Things can change on the API as it is updated
- DATIM 2.21 will be deployed after 12/18
- Slide 6 - SIMS above site is entered at the OU level - considering adding country level for the regional programs
- Need clarification on an assessment type of visit