|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
NCI Image Archive Management Workshop Report - August 2000
Summary of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
workshop entitled "Image Archive Management," presented August 28-29, 2000, at the Natcher Conference Center on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus. The purpose of this workshop was to solicit expert input for the planned development of an archival system to make imaging databases readily accessible by the broad scientific community. This PDF file is the workshop report published in Academic Radiology.
BIRN - Biomedical Informatics Research Network
The BIRN is a National Center for Research Resources
(NCRR) initiative aimed at creating a test bed to address neuroscience researchers' need to access and analyze data at a variety of levels of aggregation located at diverse sites throughout the country. The BIRN test bed will bring together hardware and develop software necessary for a scalable network of databases and computational resources. Issues of user authentication, data integrity, security, and data ownership will also be addressed. BIRN initiative has created consortiums of biomedical technology and clinical research centers that are working together to address two fundamental biomedical research issues: 1) integrating data across modalities and scales; and 2) merging difficult to acquire data with heterogeneous collection attributes from multiple research sites. These initiatives are only first steps in creating the infrastructure to support the synergistic approaches needed to solve challenging biomedical problems.
Bristol Biomedical Image Archive
The Bristol Biomedical Image Archive is an online collection of about 8500 medical, dental, and veterinary images for use in teaching and learning. All the images have been donated by academics working in the biomedical fields in different countries. Hosted at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol, UK.
BioImage Database
A European initiative for a database of multidimensional biological images. The BioImage Database project, funded by the European Union, is a collaboration between eight European groups. Its aim is to provide the general scientific community with a flexible and searchable database of multi-dimensional biological images.
Open Archives Initiative
The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. The Open Archives Initiative has its roots in an effort to enhance access to e-print Archives as a means of increasing the availability of scholarly communication. The fundamental technological framework and standards that are developing to support this work are, however, independent of the both the type of content offered and the economic mechanisms surrounding that content, and promise to have much broader relevance in opening up access to a range of digital materials. As a result, the Open Archives Initiative is currently an organization and an effort explicitly in transition, and is committed to exploring and enabling this new and broader range of applications. As we gain greater knowledge of the scope of applicability of the underlying technology and standards being developed, and begin to understand the structure and culture of the various adopter communities, we expect that we will have to make continued evolutionary changes to both the mission and organization of the Open Archives Initiative.
< Previous | Next Section > Main |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
