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B. Collette 8 February 2008

DVTK - Future

Barbara ColletteDVTK Project Leader

Eye2Eye Meeting, 8 February 2008

2B.Collette www.dvtk.org

Overview• Roadmap for 2008• DVTk community• Community website• Development community• User experiences• Looking back on today


Roadmap for 2008 (1)Current ideas:• Improve appreciated tools:

• Sniffer• Script editor

• Use the proposed UI framework:• Harmonization aspect of UI

• Thinner applications (validation services) based on defined interfaces

• More focus on IHE and external validation services (HL7, XDS, etc.)

• Component Based Architecture• Improve documentation and examples• Enhance Results management


Roadmap for 2008 (2)More ideas:• Migrate all tools to .NET 2.0• Support of TCP/IP V6• Microsoft Workflow Foundation (student assignment)• Displaying special characters• Work packages, summary:

– stand-alone DVT based tools (4)– Validation framework assignments (9)– Software interfaces (2)– Migration to new development environment (1)More details can be found on our website

• Any ideas from you ? How can you contribute ?


DVTk Community (1)• How did we involve more people and other companies ?

– Make use of State of the Art information of existing Community aspects to explore future growth.

– Look into the motivations of individuals and companies to participate.

• Get people involved, step-by-step:


DVTk community (2)Ideal ratio of users/ bug reporters/

patch submitters is close to 1000/ 10/ 1

Starting point:Starting point:

Goal:Goal:

Core developers

Developers Contributing users

Responsive users

Users

6 1 2 53 22000

Core developers

Developers Contributing users

Responsive users

Users

7 14 30 100 40000


DVTk community (3)• Projects that provide generic libraries and multi-Projects that provide generic libraries and multi-

purpose components tend to be more successful. purpose components tend to be more successful. Software interfaces are used by developers, such Software interfaces are used by developers, such type of users can make the step from contributing type of users can make the step from contributing user towards developer.user towards developer.

• We choose to focus our communication We choose to focus our communication strategy on our open source library.strategy on our open source library.


Community website (1)• New website should serve the community better:

– Include different domains (DICOM, HL7, IHE)– Be attractive for developers (easy access to source

code)– Share example code– Share small scripts

• Website preview:http://eye2eye.eerstproberen.com/


Community website (2)


Development community


User experiences (1)• Before the DVTk project went to open source the number of

downloads a month was approximately 150. These downloads were all from the Philips and AFGA websites.

• Since the project became open source, the number of downloads of the DVTk project’s has increased enormously:

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User experiences (2)• An overview of references to the DVTk project:


Looking back on today• Feedback of participants

• Short evaluation of the committee

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