WG3 Metadata Specification
Added Place entity and addressed spatial representation for Dataset (spatialCoverage), Organization (location) and Activities (location). Added datatype to Dimension. Extended Dataset.isAbout to include Annotation in the range. Updated examples to comply with the new schemas. Extended documentation.
Status: Version 1 - 12th August 2015
Working Group Goals: The NIH BD2K bioCADDIE Metadata Working Group (WG) 3 is tasked to define a set of metadata specifications that support intended capability of the NIH BD2K Data Discovery Index prototype - as outlined in the bioCADDIE White Paper. This is a joint activity between bioCADDIE and CEDAR, another BD2K centre focused on metadata. This joint Metadata WG3 operates in two phases to produce a ‘core metadata’ (phase 1), designed to be future-proofed for progressive extensions to accommodate ‘domain-specific metadata’ for more specialized data types (phase 2), as needed.
Scope of the Document: This document describes the process, the material reviewed (section 1 and Appendix I) and the use cases (section 2) used to identify an initial set of metadata elements and create a JSON schemata (section 3 and Appendix II); this work will be iteratively reviewed, following a test phase.
Associated Material: This document, its appendixes and the associated code are available from the bioCADDIE Github repository and the bioCADDIE Metadata WG3 webpage; the latter also serves the original working files, the presentations and notes from the WG3 activities. The schemas and models in Appendix I are also listed in the BioSharing Collection for bioCADDIE.
Intended Audience: This document is primarily aimed at the bioCADDIE Core Development Team that will implement and test this model; however this is also informative for other parties such as prospective data sources for the Data Discovery Index and developers of data harvesting and other tools.
Contact: Questions and comments to Susanna-Assunta Sansone (WG3 chair) and WG3 members - adding them directly to the live Google document or sending them to biocaddie[at]ucsd.edu.