VODAN BRAZIL - The Brazilian experience at the Virus Outbreak Data Network

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a series of global research actions are being implemented to combat the
virus and its effects, but also to create better support for more agile collaboration on future events. The Virus
Outbreak Data Network (VODAN), this network was created under the urgent need to establish a federated data
infrastructure to support the capture and use of data, following the FAIR Data Principles, not only during this
pandemic but also on future infection disease outbreaks. It is aimed both to human and machine exploration,
fostering reuse and reproducibility of scientific resources.
The VODAN Brazil (VODAN BR) project started the implementation of the network with a collaboration, collecting
and treating anonymized patients data from COVID-19 cases, following the World Health Organization standard
form, initially from two public hospitals. The poster addresses an general view of the VODAN BR project and the challenges encountered in stages of developing this generic and flexible infrastrucure supporting data and metadata life cycle. This infrastructure is to be part of the global VODAN network, allowing the reuse and exploration of associated data and metadata in a widely range of researchers.