Terra Core Data Model Initiative

Terra Core Data Model Team

Current Members: Larry Babb, Sid Cox, Paul Clemons, Rachel Liao, Eugenio Mattei, Marco Ocana, Kathy Reinold (Chairperson), Kathleen Tibbetts, Noam Shoresh, Timothy Tickle, Kyle Vernest, Andrew Zimmer

Governance

• Chairperson schedules meetings, drives activities and ensures the Terra Core Data Model Initiative space is maintained.
• Management Advisor assures the Team includes key representation across Broad Institute and alignment with DSP Objectives 
• Meetings and/or Workshops will be scheduled 4-8 times per year but the frequency is subject to change.
  • Workshops are where we thrash out the model definition
  • Meetings are used to share information or define objectives/agendas

Membership: 

• Members consist of Data Stewards, Data Owners, Researchers and Data Modelers
• Nominee names will be submitted to the Chairperson, reviewed by current members with final approval by the Chairperson & Management Advisor.   
• Proposed commitment: minimum 6 months

2022 Objectives

• Tactical - current objectives
  • Create official version 1 of Terra Interoperability Model
  • Document current recommended ontologies
  • Define the "Findability Subset"
    • Core entities and properties that will enable cross-dataset search
    • This will be extended over time
  • Update the model based on
    • Terra Repository cross-dataset search testing
    • Product team priorities
    • Experience using the model for selected datasets
• Strategic - efforts to define longer term goals
  • Renaming the model to encourage use by a broader audience
  • Restructuring the model as follows to build upon core functionality
    • core – Findability subset
    • extended model - capture provenance and additional detail for assays and other processes
    • TDR model - adding Terra-specific support for more effectively mapping data to TIMinTDR schema

Alumni Contributors

• Clare Bernard, Sinéad Chapman

Guest Subject Matter Experts

• Orr Ashenberg, Tommaso Biancalani, Jean Chang, Charles Epstein, Caroline Porter, Gopal Sarma

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