GREI 4: Task 6 - Assemble and provide metrics about HDV data collection for therapeutic areas

[cmbz]

Overview

• Assemble and provide metrics about HDV data collection for therapeutic areas
• Therapeutic areas include: Cardiology, Systems Neuroscience, Quality of Life, Bioinformatics Software, and Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction

Tasks

• Identify HDV source for information about therapeutic areas (e.g., Dataverse subjects and keywords)
• Map existing HDV information to therapeutic areas (e.g., specific keywords may map to a therapeutic area)
• Collect metrics about HDV datasets exhibiting related keywords and subjects
• Share metrics in designated GREI spreadsheet
• Consider approaches to operationalize this reporting on a regular basis (if needed)

Resources

• Project: NIH GREI - Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative #124
• Epic: GREI 4 - Analytics and Reporting #118

[cmbz]

Status: May 2024

• Julian and Sonia met and discussed a plan to gather as much content as possible given the lack of standards we should be using for this search. This is now due June 6th.
• Julian shared results of search with Sonia and continued adjusting the search as other GREI repositories added search terms to the GREI spreadsheet

[jggautier]

@sbarbosadataverse, I searched for datasets whose metadata contains:

• any of the categories that other GREI repositories have listed in the Top Biomedical Research Categories in GREI Repository Holdings spreadsheet
• most terms in NIH's "Research, Condition, and Disease Categorization" like you suggested, since Figshare wrote that that's what they're using

Could you review the datasets from that search to see if many of these datasets seem irrelevant?

This will help me evaluate the way I'm finding these datasets, before we consider using more search terms like we spoke about, such as the "therapeutic areas" at https://www.cdisc.org/standards/therapeutic-areas/disease-area and the names of NIH centers and institutes.

We also spoke about looking at the keywords and topic classifications in the metadata of datasets from NIH-funded research in the Harvard Dataverse Repository (#217), and using those as search terms, too.

I put those keywords and topic classifications in tabs in the spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OAQiSkgyeb_YdM4rFhl439FUeNadvmg5R5r0d4PN4us. Could you take a look?

My impression is that someone with domain knowledge would need to review these before we can use them for searching. Feels like many of the keywords and especially the topic classifications wouldn't be that helpful, but I'm not sure. Maybe we could use only the keywords when we see that it comes from a relevant vocabulary, like MeSH, SNOMED-CT, and NCIT.

[cmbz]

Status: June 2024

• @jggautier added categories and dataset/holding counts from his search results to the the "Harvard Dataverse" tab of the Top Biomedical Research Categories in GREI Repository Holdings spreadsheet. He added a note in that spreadsheet about how he got the counts. Categories with fewer than 10 datasets/holdings were not added to the Top Biomedical Research Categories in GREI Repository Holdings spreadsheet after @sbarbosadataverse suggested this.
• @jggautier updated the the "Harvard Dataverse" tab and the "Aggregate" tab of the Top Biomedical Research Categories in GREI Repository Holdings spreadsheet with counts of datasets where "covid19" appears in the metadata

[jggautier]

@sbarbosadataverse and @cmbz, I'm going to close this GitHub issue. I'm curious how these counts will be used and during the GREI-Monthly CWG Meeting on July 10 I plan to ask about them (unless someone else brings them up).

[jggautier]

Re-opening this issue. @sbarbosadataverse asked that I include counts of datasets that include the term "covid19"in their metadata. I'm getting that count now and will update the Harvard Dataverse tab of the the Top Biomedical Research Categories in GREI Repository Holdings spreadsheet today.

[jggautier]

I updated the "Harvard Dataverse" tab and the "Aggregate" tab of the Top Biomedical Research Categories in GREI Repository Holdings spreadsheet.

[sbarbosadataverse]

Closed the last remaining checkbox as we consider in a new issue how to make use of the information we collected for this ask from the GREI planning unit