Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K)

Jennie Larkin, Ph.D.NIH

RDA P5

March 10,2015

Biomedical Research as a Connected Digital Enterprise

• Collection of all biomedical digital research objects along with the relationships between those objects.

• Distributed across geographically dispersed servers,

• Appear to be seamlessly connected with effective interoperability and (where appropriate) widely used common standards, annotation, and/or interfaces.

digital research objects digital research objects = datasets (basic and clinical), software, publications, information about investigators, and metadata (descriptors) about these digital objects

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BD2K Awards in 2014

$32M in FY14

BD2K 2015

Standards Metadata

CommonsSustainability

Community support

Software discovery

BD2K Request for Information: Input on Sustaining

Biomedical Data Repositories

• NOT-ES-15-011

• Response Date:  March 18, 2015

• BD2K_Sustainability_RFI@niehs.nih.gov

• solicit comments and ideas for economic, technical, policy and administrative approaches toward enhancing long-term sustainability of biomedical data repositories.

NIH BD2K and RDA

• Come to the Biomedical Data BOF Session!

• Today!

• 16:00-17:30 in Royal Room Salons I & II

• Meet others with shared interest in biomedical data

• Find out what is going on and identify what is needed