This chapter provides information on connectors which can be used with Oracle WebCenter Content. It covers the following topics:
Section 7.2, "Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) Connector"
Section 7.3, "Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Connector"
The primary responsibility of the storage connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is to transfer and store documents, with their metadata, from the SharePoint library to Oracle WebCenter Content. The connector replicates upload, update, check in, check out, discard check out, and delete operations from SharePoint to Oracle WebCenter Content. Using the connector, you can perform the following tasks:
Configure connection settings
Configure security settings
Map SharePoint metadata
Activate the connector
Configure scope rules and conditions
Perform data migration
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering the Oracle WebCenter Content Storage Connector for Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) is a standard used by the Integrating The Healthcare Enterprise initiative to help medical devices that create documents, such as MRI machines, to better communicate with content repositories. XDS is a data exchange specification composed of elements which communicate with each other using standard SOAP-based web services.
The WebCenter Content XDS Connector is used to allow Oracle WebCenter Content and the Content Server to act as a repository in an XDS exchange. With the WebCenter Content XDS Connector enabled, documents are downloaded to the repository in Oracle WebCenter Content. The downloading is based on a unique XDS-specific document ID supplied by the Document Source.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuring the XDS Connector for Oracle WebCenter Content.
Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) is a standard specifying an imaging file format and a networking protocol to be used in the medical imaging domain. Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) are designed to store and transfer medical images in the DICOM format using DICOM network protocol.
Medical imaging devices (such as CT scanners and X-ray machines) communicate with one or more PACS to store images. Health care professionals then review images using a DICOM viewer application to query PACS to retrieve relevant patient information.
DICOM support has been integrated into Oracle WebCenter Content to give Content Server users access to DICOM images. This integration allows images originally stored in a PACS or on the local file system to be managed using Content Server. The DICOM support that has been integrated is based on the functionality of Oracle Multimedia DICOM, a feature of Oracle Database.
For more information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuring and Using the DICOM Component.