NLM's vision is to "refocus and enhance its research development, training, and information services to make more biomedical data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, to invent the tools and services to turn data and information into knowledge and insight, and to develop the workforce capable of doing so."
Source: U.S. National Library of Medicine. A Platform for Biomedical Discovery and Data-Powered Health. Strategic Plan 2017-2027.
The following are characteristics identified by the BioMedical Informatics Coordinating Committee (BMIC) as being desirable characteristics of data repositories:
Additional considerations for repositories involving human data:
Source: Huerta MF. Strategic Approaches to Data Science & Open Science: Research Data Management. Presented at: Research Data Management Symposium; 2019 Dec 5; New York, NY.
These repositories are selected from the much longer list available via NIH.
These generalist repositories are affiliated with NIH, which suggests depositing in a generalist repository if a domain specific repository cannot be found. List from NIH.
There are several considerations you may need to account for when choosing a repository for your data.
For questions or comments, email us at medicine.datacatalog@hofstra.edu.
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