Global Standards Library
The global
standards library is the metadata repository for the SAS Clinical
Standards Toolkit. By default, the global standards library contains
the metadata for the Framework module and the metadata for each data
standard that is provided by SAS (such as the CDISC SDTM 3.1.2 standard).
During the installation and configuration
of the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit, the user is prompted for the
location where the global standards library should be installed. The
configuration process creates a series of directories in this location.
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metadatacontains data sets that have information about the registered standards. For more information, see Common Framework Metadata.
The
metadata directory contains two data sets—Standards
and StandardSASReferences. The Standards data set has a list of the
registered standards and basic information relating to each standard.
The following display provides the full content of the global standards
library Standards data set included with the SAS Clinical Standards
Toolkit.
Note: The
&_cstGRoot directory in the rootpath column maps to the <global standards library
directory>.
The StandardSASReferences
data set defines the typical inputs and outputs of SAS processes that
are associated with each standard. The following display shows some
rows and columns.
The type and subtype columns can
be used to reference information that SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit
needs. This information is in the directory structures and file naming
standards used by the customer. A full list of valid types and subtypes
are provided in this document.
The
standards directory
contains subdirectories for each of the standard versions that is
provided by SAS. In addition, there are subdirectories for user-customized
versions of these standards and any new user-defined standards. Each
subdirectory should be considered a stand-alone module. This is how
the SAS Clinical Standards Toolkit can keep parallel standards and
reduce the need for revalidation. Within each subdirectory, there
might be directories that group the files, data sets, and housekeeping
programs. The following display shows the directory structure for
a Microsoft Windows global standards library with cdisc-sdtm-3.1.1-1.3 expanded.
The
schema-repository directory contains XML schema definitions
that are used to validate XML files. Standards that use XML should
have their schemas in this directory so that they can be found. For
example, the schema-repository directory
for CDISC CRT-DDS 1.0 as defined in the Standards data set maps to: