About :: Open Data

This is how Wikipedia defines Open Data: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data):

“Open Data is a philosophy and practice requiring that certain data are freely available to everyone, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. It has a similar ethos to a number of other "Open" movements and communities such as open source and open access. However these are not logically linked and many combinations of practice are found. The practice and ideology itself is well established (for example in the Mertonian tradition of science) but the term "Open Data" itself is recent. Much of the emphasis in this entry is on data from scientific research and from the data-driven web. In some cases Open Data may be considered as more properly Open Metadata and there is not yet a consistent formalisation. This article uses recent publications and activities to define the scope of the concept and term.”

Across the globe, government-funded bio-medical information is increasingly available for free use. Thousands of databases, with petabytes of raw data are spread across hundreds of agencies, websites, and FTP sites.

OpenPHI's staffers regularly scan academic, governmental and scientific websites to find and download raw data that could be useful to our clients and users. All the raw data from each selected datasource is downloaded and stored in OpenPHI’s servers. Each record is then indexed and analyzed using our Controlled Medical Vocabulary ("CMV"), an enhanced version of the National Cancer Institute's Enterprise Vocabulary Server ("EVS"). Our CMV has over 07 Million concepts.