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Secure One HHS
Secure One HHS develops policies, procedures, and guidance to serve as a foundation for HHS' information security program. These documents implement relevant Federal laws, regulations, standards, and guidelines that provide a basis for the information security program at the Department. As Secure One HHS evolves, these documents will be subject to review and revision. Reviews and updates will take place at least annually, or when changes occur that identify the need to revise and improve Secure One HHS.
cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)
To expedite the cancer research communities' access to key bioinformatics
platforms the NCI plans to deploy an integrating biomedical informatics
infrastructure: the cancer biomedical informatics grid (caBIG). In partnership
with the cancer research community, the NCI is creating a common, extensible
informatics platform that integrates diverse data types and supports
interoperable analytic tools. This platform will allow research groups to tap
into the rich collection of emerging cancer research data while supporting
their individual investigations.
Cancer Data Standards Repository
(caDSR)
One of the problems confronting the biomedical data management community is the
panoply of ways that similar or identical concepts are described. Such
inconsistency in data descriptors (metadata) makes it nearly impossible to
aggregate and manage even modest-sized data sets in order to be able to ask
basic questions. The NCI, together with partners in the research community,
develops common data elements (CDEs) that are used as metadata descriptors for
NCI-sponsored research and for the caCORE applications. The caCORE objects are
represented by UML Models. The UML Model is used to facilitate a semi-automated
load from caCORE UML into ISO/IEC 11179 Administered Components. This is
discussed in more detail in the
Application Developers section. The caDSR is a
database and tool set that the NCI and its partners use to create, edit and
deploy the CDEs.
ISO/IEC 11179, Information Technology -
Metadata Registries (MDR)
ISO 11179 is a standard for describing data elements used in databases and
documents that specifies basic aspects of data element composition, including
metadata. The standard applies to the formulation of data element
representations and meaning as shared among people and machines; it does not
apply to the physical representation of data as bits and bytes at the machine
level. This standard is used as the basis for the NCI Common Data Elements.
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative is an open forum engaged in the development
of interoperable online metadata standards that support a broad range of
purposes and business models. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven
working groups, global workshops, conferences, standards liaison, and
educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and
practices.
NLM Communications Engineering Branch
Projects in the Communications Engineering Branch focus on R&D in image
engineering: the capture, storage, processing, online retrieval, transmission
and display of both biomedical documents (mainly journals) and medical imagery.
The data repositories available from the NLM Communications Engineering Branch
have been collected from a variety of sources. This collection contains
digitized versions of radiographs and rare manuscripts. Data Repositories
include the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) with
collateral data and x-ray images.
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