CBIIT Open Source Development Initiative, Community Projects, and Community Code Resource Directory March 14, 2012

–OSDI –Community Projects –Community Code Resource Directory –Review 2 Agenda

–Definition: CBIIT initiative which facilitates and directs the transition of existing CBIIT development projects to public forums and code repositories –Purpose: Better facilitate the acceptance and incorporation of code from the community into existing projects Allow the future direction of projects to be defined and managed by the community –Submit a project N/A 3 Open Source Development Initiative (OSDI)

–Definition: CBIIT initiative which seeks out and funds community members that identify a bona fide need within the cancer community and show the means to fulfill that need –Purpose: Identify and fill capability gaps within the cancer community that are not currently being address by existing CBIIT projects –Submit a project: Contact your workspace facilitator for more information: Imaging: Angela Nicholas - Clinical Trials Management Systems: Ken Wiley - Integrated Cancer Research: Mervi Heiskanen - Tissue Banks and Pathology Tools: Lynn Martin - Architecture: Reechik Chatterjee – Vocabularies and Common Data Elements: Brian Davis 4 Community Projects

Community Code Resource Directory –Definition: Webpage hosted at NCI which acts as a ‘phonebook’ for Open Source projects available to support the cancer community –Purpose: Promote the exchange of community-developed digital capabilities to support cancer research –Submit a project: Include in your request: –The URL for where the code is located –A description of the license attached to the code –Any publications / presentations of the resource 5

Criteria for Addition to the Community Code Resource Directory Webpage Publically available source code –It is preferred, but not required, for the code to be in a code versioning system like GitHub, SourceForge, or GoogleCode An open source license Basic user instructions, installation instructions, and system requirements It is preferable but not required that the resource should have been publicly presented at a scientific meeting or published in a journal and have some relation to the caBIG program. –Examples include but are not limited to : integration with or extension of a caBIG tool; use of a caBIG data standard; analysis of a data set obtained through the caBIG infrastructure.

Review – Which Initiative applies? I have a project in my lab that I feel could be used by the larger cancer community. Which initiative? –Community Code Resource Directory I have identified a gap within the cancer community that I need assistance (financial or other) to fulfill. Which initiative? –Community Projects I have a project in my lab that I feel could be used by the larger cancer community but needs some further development. Which initiative? –Community Code Resource Directory –Community Project

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