This began as the NCI Wiki home page for the Semantic Infrastructure and Operations Group. This wiki is now an archive for the work of that group which was done in 2010.

A requirements elicitation activity took place through January 2010.

The Semantic Infrastructure and Operations Group supports the vision of the caBIG® infrastructure, which is to:

The Semantic Infrastructure and Operations Group comprises the semantic aspects of the CORE Program Area, the caBIG® Vocabulary and Common Data Elements Workspace, and certain aspects of the caBIG® Architecture Workspace, and caGrid.

The major goal of the Semantics and Operations Group is to enable semantic interoperability and integration in a virtual network or cloud of interconnected organizations, in order to redefine how research is conducted, care is provided, and patients/participants interact with the biomedical research and care enterprise. The research community is primarily focused on the development of new knowledge and treatments, while the health care community is focused on clinical care and outcomes; both objectives can be advanced by leveraging the semantic infrastructure investment in CBIIT and caBIG® tools and frameworks.

The scientific goal of the initiative is to:

The programmatic objectives of the initiative are to:

The activities of the NCI CBIIT Semantic Infrastructure and Operations Group fall into three areas:

Current thinking is that the new infrastructure architecture will include: