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Welcome to the caBIG® Vocabulary Knowledge Center

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

EVS 4.X API to 5.0 API Migration. Is a Boot Camp Needed? Discuss here More information at Migration Boot Camp

A Protégé-OWL Short Course will be held at Stanford University from March 23rd-25th, 2009. For more information go to Protégé Resources

Background

The ability of caBIG® tools to share and integrate information from disparate sources is dependent on the use of robust vocabularies.

Mayo Clinic,with support from SemanticBits leverage a deep domain knowledge. Read More

Mission, Scope and Services Provided

The caBIG® Vocabulary Knowledge Center acts as the steward of the tools and documentation, providing access and support to those individuals and institutions interested in making use of or extending caBIG® tools. The high-level primary objectives include dissemination of domain expertise, community outreach, application releases, development-related activities, documentation, and training. Read More

Organizational Capabilities

Mayo brings extensive experience in terminology development and management, and has in-depth technical knowledge of LexBIG, Semantic Media Wiki, and Protégé—the key tools in the caBIG® vocabulary domain. Semantic Bits will develop the online resources, including the knowledge base, that delivers these vocabulary resources to those who want to build their own interoperable tools and systems. Read More

Vocabularies and Ontologies

Tool Purpose Links
LexGrid
  • Common access point for representing and accessing terminology content
  • Step toward making terminologies an interoperable component of caBIG®
LexBIG
  • Provides a robust and scalable open source implementation of EVS-compliant vocabulary services.
  • Provides a flexible implementation for vocabulary storage and persistence.
  • Provides standard tooling for load and distribution of vocabulary content.
Protégé
  • Free, open-source platform
  • Facilitates terminology and editing
  • Extension of Protégé:Protégé-OWL
  • Editor for Protégé:Protégé-Frames
NCI Protégé
  • Collection of Protégé plug-ins developed for the NCI-specific editing environment.
  • Used to edit BiomedGT content and the NCI Thesaurus.
Semantic MediaWiki
  • Environment to browse and discuss the use and structure of the terminology
  • Allow users to suggest changes to the terminology providers
  • Effectively manages changes of the terminology
  • Implementations of Semantic MediaWiki: LexWiki, BiomedGT
LexWiki
  • Environment to browse and discuss the use and structure of the terminology
  • Allow users to suggest changes to the terminology providers
  • Effectively managed changes
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