Vocabulary Knowledge Center Update VCDE Workspace July 21, 2011

Agenda Tools Update Outreach –Conferences and customers Knowledge Base Projects Knowledge Base Highlight Questions/Feedback

Tools Update Latest Releases LexEVS 6.0 (2/1) –Much anticipated release with pre-CTS2 functionality –Dev funding for 6.1 has paused temporarily –Open source opportunities (McGill University, BiKE) NCI Protégé (2/7) –Final release, before maintenance mode LexWiki Publisher 2.0 (3/14) –Loads content from LexEVS into LexWiki –Very configurable, works on any terminology in LexEVS Migration to JIRA complete

Tools Update Latest Releases CDE Browser (3/31) NCBO BioPortal 3.1 (7/8) CTS 2 Specification –Approved as a OMG beta specification –Please refer to the previous presentation for details

Outreach Conferences Past conferences Future conferences AMIA 2011 TBI/CRI Joint Summit (Freimuth, Tao, Jiang) Seoul National University at Rochester (many) OMG SOA in Healthcare (Solbrig, Peterson, Stancl) ICBO (Tao, Jiang, Pathak, Freimuth) Future Past

Outreach Customers HSDB federation/OSU –OCRe Terminology curation set now Center for Disease Control (CDC) –Reviewing PHIN VADS in light of CTS 2 TRANSFoRm (European Health Care) –Specifically interested in Value Sets McGill University (Canada) –Published paper on NCI EVS and BioPortal (in French) –Collaboration on loader for ATC (drug statistics terminology supported by the WHO) New Tools fact sheet created for distribution

Outreach Customers (continued) Queensland Health (Australia) –Local ontology development, tie into to controlled Seoul National University (BiKE) –5 years development on LexCare Suite (EVS from 2005) –MoU for collaboration Astrazeneca –Interest in services, curation, and workflow practices MOH Holdings (Singapore) –Tested LexEVS, wants to use REST, may write their own

Outreach Customers (continued) Universidade de Averio (Portugal) –ICD-9 to 10 mapping –Interested in mapping local to controlled University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) –Raising awareness of NCI EVS to Ministry of Health –Preparing a comparision, LexEVS, Carecom, and one other Cordelier Research Center –Wants to use LexEVS in distributed data warehouse

Knowledge Base Expanding the semantic universe Semantic Web Technology Interest Group (SemTIG) Semantic Media Wiki concepts, technologies, resources Introduction to the semantic web NCI Term Browser install Tool Roadmaps

Knowledge Base Expanding the semantic universe LexEVS 5.x to 6.0 migration Removal of old LexGrid.org site Navigation and indexing of the LexEVS Javadocs NCI Term Browser usage video LexWiki Publisher video Updated LexEVS “Remote API’ to “Distributed”

Projects Now and on the horizon Public relations for the soon-to-be NCI Value Set Browser Ontology Representation Working Group LexEVS bug fixes Differences between NCI-m and NCI-t Library of Documents organization Chinese page updates

Projects Now and on the horizon Migration from Media Wiki to Confluence thesaurus.cancer.gov ncit.cancer.gov ncit.nci.nih.gov nciterms.nci.nih.gov NCI term browsers wiki.nci.nih.gov NCI wiki dashboard VCDE work space cabig.nci.nih.gov caBIG community web site (all work spaces) VCDE work space cabig- kc.nci.nih.gov/Vocab/KC Vocabulary Knowledge Center Finding caBIG Tools ncicb.nci.nih.gov Original NCI CB site cancer.gov NCI Cancer (gov) evs.nci.nih.gov NCI EVS (about terminologies & browsers) Down loads GForge downlo ads Redirects

VKC Knowledge Base Highlight LexEVS Highlights (Main functions- qualifications) –Model –Authoring –Versioning –CTS –Mapping –Value Set –Pick List –Loaders –Exporters –Query –Web Services –Extensibility –Semantic Web –Other

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