The project I\u2019m involved in<\/a> is to help the research community keep track of\u2014and find new ways to use\u2014the data that\u2019s been gathered by these initiatives. Maintaining awareness of the overall Common Fund data inventory (all the data collected by all the DCCs) is important for at least two reasons. First, it helps ensure the data can be used by appropriate research programs. Second, it helps ensure the resources to maintain the data remain available over time, even when the initiative that produced the data has completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\nYou might think it’s an easy problem to keep track of this data, but actually it’s not. More accurately, although it isn’t hard to remember what kinds<\/em> of data were collected, it turns out to be quite a challenge to remember enough about the data\u2014how it was collected, where it came from, how each measurement was made\u2014for it to be useful in other research projects. There’s a lot of value in this data, but only if we remember enough about it for it to be reused. Otherwise, it’s just a very expensive pile of numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe team I belong to is working on a system that allows the Common Fund DCCs to reliably share all the metadata\u2014the all-important details about<\/em> the data\u2014with NIH so it can be remembered after the initiative has concluded. Other important benefits include: helping the DCCs make their data as reusable as possible, and helping medical researchers find data that could be of use in their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI feel privileged to be involved in work like this. It’s projects like these that keep my work at the University of Chicago interesting and worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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