Workspaces & Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

What are the Workspaces?

caBIG™ activities take place within workspaces. Workspace participants provide data, subject matter expertise, and solutions; create and evaluate standards; and help shape the workspace's strategic direction - ultimately identifying, prioritizing, and fulfilling the needs of the specific area of focus of the workspace. Participants in caBIG™ fulfill one or more roles:

• Developing or modifying interoperable tools (e.g., software, infrastructure).
• Adopting applications for use in settings different from those in which they were developed.
• Mentoring others in data model and tool development, software development, documentation or training activities.
• Contributing to white papers in strategic, policy or technology areas, such as patient privacy or security architecture.

In addition to contributing to ongoing programmatic workspace activities, caBIG™ participants may also be part of developer/adopter project teams, focused on specific tools or other needed products. Developers construct tools or adapt existing tools to address needs identified by the cancer community. Adopters provide data sets, and focus on testing, validating, and applying tools developed by others for their own institution's workflow.

What are the Special Interest Groups (SIGs)?

Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within workspaces support the workspaces, and are convened to address specific or specialized needs of workspaces as they arise. Collectively, the workspaces are not only building the foundation for caBIG™, they are also defining and refining caBIG™'s goals, priorities and activities.

For more information on how caBIG™ is organized, visit the How It Works section.

To lean more about a particular workspace, use the navigation to the left where the individual workspaces are listed according to their category (Domain, Cross Cutting, and Strategic Level).

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