20220315-minutes.md

Metadata Templates Working Group Minutes

Tuesday, 2022/03/15

10:00 am ET

Attendees:

Terrell Russell, Kory Draughn, Alan King, Daniel Moore, Dave Fellinger, Simona Stoica (Groningen), Paul Borgermans (KU Leuven), Mike Conway (NIEHS), Mohammad Shaikh (Bristol Myers Squibb)

Minutes

Update/Discussion:

• Goal: Paper for UGM2022, put this group's learnings out in the world
  • Shared document, outline first, work outside of this meeting time
  • Captured minutes into 'outline', now in 'whitepaper' branch
• KU Leuven
  • Building a portal
  • Looking at a metadata template / schema editor, and using require/optional
  • Mixed mode of collection and data object level
  • And enforcing validation
• BMS, Dataflow, drug discovery pipeline, from/through many teams
  • Scientists want to have the data local for analysis
    • But no concept of checkin/checkout
  • To manage data as an asset
    • 'Data bundles' - defined by shared metadata / AVUs
  • A system for 'locking' as well as auditing/reporting about activity on a data object
  • Perhaps a new / next working group - "Pipeline/Sharing"
• administrative/descriptive/datatypes distinction in the templates themselves?
  • Define the magic fairy dust - best practices - examples - domains...
• Next meeting
  • April 2022