Below we have compiled a list of questions most often asked about OCL and related tools. If you have any questions still lingering, please feel free to reach out to us via our Contact Form.

 

Q: What is the Open Concept Lab (OCL)?

a. OCL is an open-source terminology management platform to help collaboratively manage, publish, and use metadata in the cloud alongside the global community.

This collaborative terminology management platform helps organizations realize the benefit of health information standards and makes this content available to implementers everywhere.

OCL is more than a set of open-source cloud based tools that supports health care terminology. It is a community of terminologists, developers and implementers that help to collaboratively manage, publish and use metadata in the cloud within the global community.

Q: How can I join the OCL Community?

a. Currently, interested persons can join the OCL community by participating in the OCL community calls: Architecture Community Call, Developer Community Call, and the OpenHIE Terminology Service Community. Github is another great starting point where you can find a number of active “Pinned” repositories that focus on key work streams and tools.

You can also keep up with the latest OCL happenings via email by adding yourself to the mailing list.

Q: What is the OCL Toolset?

a. The following is a list of the OCL toolset:

• TermBrowser: The OCL TermBrowser is the primary tool for searching terminology and other metadata loaded into OCL.
• Terminology Service: The OCL Terminology Service is the back-bone of the OCL Toolkit. It is an open-source solution for the management and publication of standardized and local terminologies.
• OpenMRS Dictionary Manager: The OpenMRS Dictionary Manager client focuses on the workflow of an OpenMRS Implementer who is managing her OpenMRS dictionary within OCL, drawing on concepts & mappings from CIEL, and synchronizing the concept collection as a dictionary on one or more OpenMRS server(s).
• OCL Online: OCL Online is the online instance for hosting your terminology service needs in the cloud, without needing to download the software to a private server.

Q: Can I host my own instance of the OCL Terminology System?

a. If locally-hosted content is required, OCL makes it possible through the Open Source code and installation steps to set up individual instances of OCL Terminology Service. 

Q: How is the OCL community connected to the OpenMRS community?

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Q: Where can I access source code?

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Q: What are standard vocabularies?

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