Metadata based management and sharing of distributed biomedical data.
Biomedical research data sharing is becoming increasingly important for researchers to reuse experiments, pool expertise and validate approaches. However, there are many hurdles for data sharing, including the unwillingness to share, lack of flexible data model for providing context information, difficulty to share syntactically and semantically consistent data across distributed institutions, and high cost to provide tools to share the data.SciPortis a web-based collaborative biomedical data sharing platform to support data sharing across distributed organisations.SciPortprovides a generic metadata model to flexibly customise and organise the data. To enable convenient data sharing,SciPortprovides a central server based data sharing architecture with a one-click data sharing from a local server. To enable consistency,SciPortprovides collaborative distributed schema management across distributed sites. To enable semantic consistency,SciPortprovides semantic tagging through controlled vocabularies.SciPortis lightweight and can be easily deployed for building data sharing communities.
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, fusheng.wang@emory.edu.
Fusheng
F
Wang
Oracle, California, USA, cristobal.vergara.niedermayr@gmail.com.
Cristobal
C
Vergara-Niedermayr
Department of Integrated Data Systems, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, pliu412@gmail.com.
Peiya
P
Liu
computer supported collaborative work; data integration; data sharing; metadata; scientific data management