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te ( tics aBIG and Data Elements Workspace (VCDE WS) working group has developed a set of criteria that serve to assess a terminology’s structure, content, documentation, and editorial process. This paper describes I) is de e, the c in a publicly available, ISO11179-compliant metadata repository called the cancer Data Standards Repository (caDSR) [1]. By this method, data and systems are described by commonly understood concepts and definitions, and the descriptions are publicly avail-able for users and other developers to re-use. dard terminology should satisfy. The VCDE WS has performed a series of ‘‘terminology reviews ” to exercise and evaluate the crite-ria. This paper describes the evolution of the caBIG terminology re-view process, a description of the criteria in their present form, the * Corresponding author