Workshop Facilitators

Anil Srivastava, President, Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) co-located at Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus

Paul Courtney, Project Manager at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA

Ajai Kumar/Hemant Darbari/Swati Mehta/Vivek Koul, Center for Development of Advances Computing C-DAC, Pune, India

Rubayi Srivastava, Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL), California

Agenda

Anil Provide context, history, mission & vision of OHSL, What programs & projects concern OHSL and VIVO fits into the portfolio

Paul Provide vision of developing the Global Cancer Collaboratory, where it is going How this effort is connected with other informatics initiatives; historical context of

caBIG, the NCI-NCRI informatics collaborations How is this different from simply putting up a VIVO instance at the OHSL campus in

Shady Grove, MD? Incubating and nurturing connectivity across international boundaries requires a different “business model” than putting up an institutional VIVO site.

Rubayi Challenges of providing project management support for an international program

spanning XX timezones, needing to provide support for logistical and knowledge management for multiple platforms and differing levels of technological infrastructures

C-DAC Technical challenges of obtaining the same information required from multiple sites Examples of what was easily available at some sites, what was difficult, how were the

challenges addressed

Anil

Background Current Indo-US collaboration projects underway Indo-US Cancer Research Grid

Paul

Methods Bootstrapping by starting as information

aggregator – using a combination of manual and automated methods – to pull in information from Indian cancer centers as well as from US cancer centers as matter of necessity.

Created two highly connected nodes, one at CDAC and one at OHSL.

Discovered/developed tools to ease process of information extraction from existing web sites

Paul (cont)

Goals Intent is to demonstrate efficacy of making

resources transparent and discoverable by providing an efficient means of discovering potential collaboration partners using VIVO

Organizational Ontology

DFCI Division, Department, Center, Program…

Rubayi

CDAC Technical Challenges & Lessons Learned

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

DFCI

Full Name, Specialization, Department, Interests

Fred Hutch

Full Name, Designation/Appointment, Division, Interests, Phone, email, Fax