Minutes from 07/19/07 Conference Call

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Next TC will be the cDISC and BRIDG presentations schedule

• Aug 2 at 11 central Bron Kisler will give a presentation about the CDISC Terminology Program

• Aug 10 at 11 central Doug Fridsma will give a presentation bout BRIDG and its relationship with the NCI Enterprise Vocabulary System (EVS)

1. Report from the recent OBI workshop held at NIH last week

• Review of Meeting by Richard

• Discussed Milestones at https://wiki.cbil.upenn.edu/obiwiki/index.php/Milestones

• Items 6, 10, and 15 were most relevant for OCI part

• OCI would be considered a Community under OBI

1. Discuss plans for OBI/OCI co-development

• Question how best to continue development of OCI within the framework of OBI

• How best to ensure the continued development of the OCI community

• Importance of developing detailed Use Cases

• Review the list of terms to determine what is missing in OBI and identify those Branches where terms need to be developed

• OCI group will work in parallel to assemble complete term lists and develop proposed ontology structure under high level OBI core

• OCI terms and structures will then be contributed to OBI branches for incorporation

• Need for a User Friendly view of the OCI specific terms as a subset of the OBI terms

1. Proposal for a transnational collaboration from Matthias Samwald, Medical University of Vienna

• Agreed that it was important for the OCI development to be a part of this proposal

• Richard will formulate a letter of agreement to Matthias for his grant proposal which will be submitted on Monday, July 23.

• Matthias will send info to Richard.

• Christian has agreed to be the liaison to this project for OCI community