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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2010 Oct 16;44(1):137–145. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2010.10.003

Figure 1. Relationship between the various contributing groups to the RDS initiative.

Figure 1

The foundational technology infrastructure consists of:

A. The Biositemaps infrastructure with its associated Biositemaps Information Model [5] for resource metadata broadcast and retrieval

B. The Biomedical Resource Ontology (BRO), which provides a controlled terminology for annotation of resources

C. Resource information and annotation provided by the Informatics Inventory Resource Working Group (IRWG), a voluntary effort through the Informatics Key Function Committee of the CTSA to provide local inventories of informatics tools from each of the 46 CTSA sites, and

D. Investigators at Duke University and the University of California Davis who worked to identify facilities, cores, and resources for translational research, and to develop and annotate a pilot inventory of such resources among seven CTSA sites.

E. The Informatics Inventory Resource Project Group (IRPG) enhanced and integrated these pre-existing efforts to implement the RDS, a Web-accessible inventory of biomedical research resources.