10.5281/zenodo.5554961
https://zenodo.org/records/5554961
oai:zenodo.org:5554961
Canham, Steve
Steve
Canham
0000-0002-4409-8834
ECRIN
ECRIN Metadata Schema for Clinical Research Data Objects Version 6.0 (August 2021)
Zenodo
2021
clinical research
metadata
discoverability
DataCite
FAIR
EOSC
2021-08-20
eng
Project milestone
10.5281/zenodo.1312538
https://zenodo.org/communities/ecrin
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
6.0
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
This paper provides an overview of a metadata schema covering the discoverability, access and provenance of data objects generated by clinical research, including individual participant data sets, to help support the 'FAIRification' of those data objects. In fact two schemas are used - one for clinical studies, based on the data structures within ClinicalTrials.gov, and the other for related data objects, based on DataCite. Because most data objects generated by clinical research do not currently have unique titles or DOIs, the expectation is that the starting point for most searches for data objects would be the source studies, hence the requirement for the two inter-related schemas.
The main paper is a description of the schemas. Appendices provide further details of categorised data items, and tabular and JSON definitions of the detailed implementation of the schemas within the ECRIN MDR (metadata repository).
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
824087
Providing an open collaborative space for digital biology in Europe