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• Develop a translation into formal semantics and computable abstraction and representation of policies and regulations imposed on a federal, state, organizational and institutional level. caBIG caBIG® standards, tools, best practices should make it easy or at least easier to be compliant. It should therefore aid the community in acknowledging, interpreting and applying the relevant regulations, inform the legislators on the success and value of the regulations and foster constant improvement.
• Incorporate a rules engine.
• Adopt a common syntax and a structure for rules which utilize data elements as their facts and conclusions. Adoption of a shared syntax and structure by all members of the caBIG caBIG® community will facilitate exchange of executable knowledge and diminish the need for extensive or resource intensive learning efforts on the part of adopters of such a system.
• Adopt a common model for rule structure. The proposed structure for rules should support the rule as an object. This has significance in caBIG caBIG® as it will allow the rules to be accessed via an interface and this will also allow the different components of rules to be treated as data elements.
• Maintain a rules repository.

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