Description of Collaborative Activity: |
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Enterprise Vocabulary Services is working with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to develop and support controlled terminology in several areas. More than 24,000+ FDA terms and codes are stored in the NCI Thesaurus. NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) provides resources and services to meet NCI, National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other partners; needs for controlled terminology, including the creation, extension, subsetting, mapping, accessing, and publishing of shared standard biomedical terminologies and ontologies. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is collaborating with other NIH institutes to develop terminology content standards extending across basic, translational and clinical research, clinical care, epidemiology, public health, administration, and public information. |
NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director: |
CC, NCI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIAID, NIDCR, NLM |
