NCIt related terms : NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS);
Définition CISMeF : NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) provides resources and services to meet NCI
needs for controlled terminology, and to facilitate the standardization of terminology
and information systems across the Institute and the larger biomedical community.
The NCI Thesaurus can be located at: http://evs.nci.nih.gov/;
NCIt definition : The NCI EVS is set of services and resources that address NCI's needs for controlled
vocabulary. The EVS Project is a collaborative effort of the Center for Bioinformatics
and the NCI Office of Communications. The NCI Thesaurus, which is a biomedical thesaurus
created specifically to meet the needs of the NCI, is produced by the NCI EVS project.
The NCI Thesaurus is provided under an open content license. The EVS Project also
produces the NCI Metathesaurus, which is based on NLM's Unified Medical Language System
Metathesaurus supplemented with additional cancer-centric vocabulary. In addition
the EVS Project provides NCI with licenses for MedDRA, SNOMED, ICD-O-3, and other
proprietary vocabularies.;
Alternative definition : CDISC-GLOSS: A US national resource to house and maintain a number of health-related
glossaries and controlled vocabularies under strict versioning. Provides resources
and services to meet the National Cancer Institute's needs for controlled terminology,
and to facilitate the standardization of terminology and information systems across
the NCI and the larger biomedical community.;
NCI Enterprise Vocabulary Services (EVS) provides resources and services to meet NCI
needs for controlled terminology, and to facilitate the standardization of terminology
and information systems across the Institute and the larger biomedical community.
The NCI Thesaurus can be located at: http://evs.nci.nih.gov/
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)