ART-DECOR® is now used in around 80 projects worldwide, mainly in Europe, the server park houses more than 10,000 artifacts from various teams of experts (governance groups), from small and medium-sized interoperability projects to large national and international infrastructure projects.

A new user interface with an improved user experience (UX) are only the superficial changes: a new framework (Vue) replaces the Orbeon platform, which is now getting on in years. For the new front end, the ART-DECOR Expert Team was competently expanded in September 2020 by a specialized Vue and Vuetify developer.

The eXist database (exist-db.org) remains a well-founded backend. Not only an update to the latest version is planned here, but a strategic alliance with eXist Solutions is now also inspiring the development team at their end as well as the ART-DECOR expert team. The conversion of the previous API to microservices and new authentication mechanisms was carried out successfully. This also contributes to better scalability and reliability.

The FHIR® topic will also be expanded further. For the treatment of concept maps in the broader sense, a member of the expert team with his master's thesis works on this topic, along with others. FHIR®-Questionnaires Management (FQM) already picked up speed in 2020 (see also the ART-DECOR Blog blog.art-decor.org). A FHIR profile editor is in the draft and should go into the test and consolidation phase in mid-2021. It provides basic and advanced functions for the profiling of FHIR resources, makes use of many of the other ART-DECOR features and collaborates with common profile repositories.

Furthermore, the centralized ART-DECOR Terminology Services (CADTS) is continuously being worked on. New documentation platforms and functions (PDF, Mediawiki, and new Confluence, Wordpress) are already in the consolidation phase in the ADBot v12 release and six UI languages are now supported. The User Group, which was started in the Netherlands and hosted by Nictiz (nictiz.nl), brings new aspects to the development of the open source tool suite.

The overall timeline has now spanned more than a decade, and with Release 3 starting in 2021, another important milestone will contribute to more cooperation, more interoperability.

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