Making Common Fund data more findable: Catalyzing a Data Ecosystem

Abstract

The Common Fund Data Ecosystem has created a flexible system of data federation that enables users to discover datasets from across the Common Fund without requiring the data owners to move, reformat, or rehost those data. The CFDEs federation system is centered on a metadata catalog that ingests metadata from individual Common Fund Program Data Coordination Centers into a uniform metadata model that can then be indexed and searched from a centralized portal. This uniform Crosscut Metadata Model (C2M2), supports the wide variety of data set types and metadata terms used by the individual and is designed to enable easy expansion to accommodate new datatypes.

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“…In addition, the LINCS DCIC is participating in the Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) NIH Common Fund program. This effort aims to standardize metadata across NIH Common Fund data coordination centers (DCCs) (Charbonneau et al., 2022). For the CFDE efforts, most of the LINCS data and metadata have been archived on an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket using a STRIDES account.…”

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