use cases

Hello everyone,
I'd like to suggest kinds of vocabularies / use cases that I might be 
able to contribute.

I am working with three different groups who are developing or 
compiling vocabularies/ontologies:

(1) The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is a 
professional organization representing the radiology imaging 
community who is developing a terminology for the radiology field 
called RadLex with the goal to standardize communication of imaging results.

(2) The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is an 
NIH-funded research network who are developing a terminology called 
BIRNLex for neurobiology with the goal to integrate diverse data in 
their field.

(3) The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is creating a 
repository of biomedical ontologies with the goal of creating a 
publicly-accessible library of ontologies and tools for working with 
them (visualization, indexing/search, alignment, quality assessment, etc).

The first two groups have interest in disseminating their 
terminologies broadly for use in annotation projects and computer 
applications; each of those could be separate use cases since they 
have different needs/goals. NCBO could be an additional interesting 
use case since there could be a use case developed to publish one or 
all of the ontologies it hosts according to standards that would be 
developed in this WG.

Regards,
Daniel

Received on Sunday, 22 October 2006 19:32:39 UTC