What is the OCL Community Roadmap?

The Open Concept Lab (OCL) Community Roadmap, created for and by our community, lays out a set of goals for OCL’s tools, services, and the community at large, and follows this general approach:

    • Goals are aspirational– not commitments– representing community priorities and requirements, and are only achieved through community contributions and funded efforts.
    • Community members are encouraged to collaborate on and champion projects – Contact a community member on OCL Chat or email info@openconceptlab.org to get involved and be listed as a stakeholder for one of the goals.
    • Open roadmap development process – Input is solicited through community meetings and a draft is published publicly for final review and prioritization.
    • Timelines and priorities depend on resources – Community contributions, volunteers, and client needs determine when and whether goals are achieved.
    • Roadmap is a living document – Our goals evolve with the community, so the roadmap will be updated throughout the year to reflect progress and contributing organizations. Comments are welcome at any time!
    • Directly operationalized – Every major bucket in the roadmap has (or will soon have) a corresponding item in GitHub, so that it is easy to find additional information and to get involved.

A dedicated OCL Chat thread will remain open throughout 2025 for suggestions, comments, reactions, and questions from the community. All input is welcome!

OCL 2025 Roadmap

Projects & Goals

2025 Roadmap Projects & Goals

Objectives

Follow along at https://github.com/orgs/OpenConceptLab/projects to learn more and to get involved.

Projects & Goals Objectives
OCL TermBrowser v3

Launch OCL TermBrowser v3 for the terminology consumer and authoring personas.

 Launch the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of OCL TermBrowser version 3 (TBv3) to meet the requirements of the following personas:

  1. Terminology Consumer: Visually enhanced searching and viewing of terminology resources, including FHIR-based viewing of terminology resources and more powerful search capabilities
  2. Terminology Author: Enhanced repository configuration (including FHIR), along with advanced authoring capabilities to better support customization, reuse, and review of terminology content
OCL FHIR Core

Implement OCL support for the FHIR Terminology Publishing Ecosystem, i.e. using OCL to build a FHIR Implementation Guide.
  1. Use OCL to author and package terminology resources for use in a FHIR Implementation Guide, and use OCL directly in an IG build process as a FHIR Terminology Publishing Service
  2. Enhance OCL support for FHIR R4B Terminology Services, and prepare for the next generation of terminology lifecycle management requirements (see Canonical Resource Management Infrastructure IG and FHIR R6)
OCL Mapper

Launch the new OCL Mapper (beta) to map your content to standard terminologies.

 Out of a community collaboration with OCL, CIEL, OpenMRS, Madiro, Regenstrief, comes a new open-source tool to map your content to standard terminologies. Objectives for the MVP are as follows:

  1. Launch the OCL Mapper (beta), a new user interface to facilitate mapping a spreadsheet or content in OCL to a target source, leveraging OCL’s existing Elastic Search back-end
  2. Prototype a LLM-based matching algorithm for selected target sources, including CIEL, to improve mapping candidate generation
OCL Online Content

Priority content available in OCL Online, including base FHIR packages, CIEL, LOINC, and more.
  1. Use OCL’s new FHIR NPM package importer to maintain base FHIR terminology packages in OCL Online, including FHIR R4 Core, THO, IPS, C-CDA, US Core, VSAC
  2. Further streamline monthly CIEL releases and make progress toward CIEL management directly in OCL
  3. Maintain essential reference vocabularies and explore license agreements for hosting of priority licensed content