BY-COVID D3.2: Implementation of cloud-based, high performance, scalable indexing system.
Henning Hermjakob, Mari Kleemola, Katja Moilanen, Markus Tuominen, Susanna‐Assunta Sansone, Allyson Lister, Romain David, Maria Panagiotopoulou, Christian Ohmann, Jeroen A.M. Beliën, Julia Lischke, Nick Juty, Stian Soiland‐Reyes · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022
BY-COVID Work Package 3 is focused on services for the discovery and integration of COVID-19 data by delivering a flexible, tiered metadata discovery system across different domains, metadata standards, and maturity/robustness levels of data sources. This will enable the linking of FAIR data and metadata on SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, on other related viruses and diseases, and on socio-economic consequences, across research fields, from omics, clinical, and epidemiological research, to social sciences and humanities. Building on the metadata format developed in D3.1, in a series of work package meetings and a workshop, with participation from all other work packages, we have developed tools (example Validator), workflows (Semi-automated transfer of resource metadata from FAIRsharing to Covid-19 portal), and documentation and training (Training: Discoverability hackathon) to support the efficient integration of additional resources from a broad range of domains into the COVID-19 Data Portal as well as improved the end user facing COVID-19 Data Portal itself (Global search). This work establishes the basis for the further development of the COVID-19 Data Portal metadata discovery, and provides a path for integration of metadata from multi-domain partners in BY-COVID, as well as our ISIDORe sibling project, and other relevant external resources. To ensure smooth integration of partner provided metadata, we anticipate re-running our “Discoverability hackathon” in the future and will continue to evolve our metadata format and presentation of the COVID-19 Data Portal. We anticipate significant development and metadata modelling work for the use-case driven support of complex data sources in close collaboration with WPs 2, 4 and 5.