A Platform to Support Science of Translational Science Research

David Eichmann, Kristi Holmes

Keywords: information integration, data services, author disambiguation

TL;DR: The Science of Translational Science (SciTS) project provides a shared data platform for institutions to collaboratively manage these resources, and avoid redundant effort.

Abstract:

There are numerous sources of metadata regarding research activity that Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) hubs currently duplicate effort in acquiring, linking and analyzing. The Science of Translational Science (SciTS) project provides a shared data platform for hubs to collaboratively manage these resources, and avoid redundant effort. In addition to the shared resources, participating CTSA hubs are provided private schemas for their own use, as well as support in integrating these resources into their local environments.

This project builds upon multiple components completed in the first phase of the Center for Data to Health (CD2H), specifically: a) data aggregation and indexing work of research profiles and their ingest into and improvements to CTSAsearch by Iowa (http://labs.cd2h.org/search/facetSearch.jsp); b) NCATS 4DM, a map of translational science; and c) metadata requirements analysis and ingest of from a number of other CD2H and CTSA projects, including educational resources from DIAMOND and N-lighten, development resources from GitHub, and data resources from DataMed (bioCADDIE) and DataCite. This work also builds on other related work on data sources, workflows, and reporting from the SciTS team, including entity extraction from the acknowledgement sections of PubMed Central papers, disambiguated PubMed authorship, ORCiD data and integrations, NIH RePORT, Federal RePORTER, and other data sources and tools.

Early activities for this project include:
* Configuration of a core warehouse instance
* Population of the warehouse from the above-mentioned sources
* Configuration of local schemas for each CTSA hub and other interested parties
* Creation for example solutions for ingest/extraction using JDBC, GraphQL, SPARQL, and tools such as teiid (an open source data federation platform).

ORCID: 0000-0003-3150-8758, 0000-0001-8420-5254

Submission Type: presentation proposal