Interim repository for BCDC metadata per quarter.
The BCDC maintains a Cell Registry to report the inventory of data generated by BICCN funded labs and submitted to the BICCN data archives NeMO, BIL, and DANDI.
Two templates are currently available for metadata collection:
- Dataset Metadata. This metadata describes a dataset with sufficient information to provide a landing page or DOI page that describes the type of data, scientific intent, contributors, funding, license information, etc.
- Sample Inventory Metadata. Our quarterly metadata collection to date has been the sample inventory metadata. This provides information about how much data has been provided to each repository with some minimal metadata fields.
The Sample Inventory is a listing of samples and associated cells or brains profiled for each sample for each dataset, reported on a quarterly basis. This is suitable for identifying the transgenic line and anatomic region sampled in a manageable spreadsheet, but is not intended to include more detailed provenance metadata. These are currently provided as snapshots per quarter.
Note: As of 2020 Q2, the sample inventory spreadsheet contains a new column, "Data Collection". "Data Collection" consists of handles that uniquely identify each data collection. The "Project" handle is retained to help cross-reference with the prior format.
The Dataset Metadata template is included in the templates folder. The template was circulated for use for the Q4 2019 data submission.
Work in progress.