The NMDC metadata standards
Enhancing and linking existing community metadata standards.
What are metadata?Metadata are the who, what, when, where, and why of experimental data. Metadata are critical for the sharing and reuse of scientific data. |
Learn what the NMDC is doing for metadataInterested in how the NMDC is using community-standards? Want to start applying standards to your sample metadata? |
MotivationThe development and adoption of standards is key to the success of the NMDC, and key to being able to integrate and search across data derived from different studies and stored in distributed data resources. Each database represents samples and associated information differently, so mapping the relevant parts of these database schemas to the relevant standards is crucial. This work focuses on selecting and contributing to existing community-driven standards and resources (i.e. Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence (MIxS), Environment Ontology (EnvO), and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) Genomes Online Database (GOLD) creating a framework for using these standards, and mapping existing systems to these standards. |
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