
Chapter 11 Semantics and Business Metadata
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NCI’s toolkit is called caCORE, and it includes objects that developers can use
in their applications. In this way, local cancer centers and research facilities
can develop their own applications and use the objects created by NCI to inter-
operate and share data with all other cancer research centers that share NCI’s
vocabulary. Here are the components of its extensive toolkit:
Terminology browser
Common Data Element (CDE) browser
Form Builder to create user-specified collections of CDEs
Sentinel Tool to generate alerts triggered by metadata changes
caCORE SDK to create semantically integrated applications, ...