ImagingDataCommons / TCIA-IDC-Coordination

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API for non-DICOM items in collections #22

Closed fedorov closed 3 years ago

fedorov commented 4 years ago

Issue submitted Nov 3, 2020 - somehow as of Nov 4 there is still no confirmation of receipt, and no ticket assigned.


IDC needs API mechanism to be able to identify all artifacts that are included in the collection and to monitor updates to those artifacts.

Right now we need to scrape collection wiki pages to identify such artifacts. These include, as an example, annotations in non-DICOM format, clinical data spreadsheets, pathology images. Sometime pointers on the collections wiki pages are to zip files on external resources, such as Box, without a convention to communicate the content of the linked artifact.

Some plan on how those various items could eventually be exposed via API would be appreciated.