Table 3 Core properties of the Data Catalog Data Model.

From: The Translational Data Catalog - discoverable biomedical datasets

Data object

Core properties

Recommended properties

PROJECT

title, types, projectLeads

description, acronym, start/end date, funding, projectWebsite

STUDY

name

description, studyGroups, characteristics

DATASET

title, types, creators

description, creation date, version, dataStandard, types, dimensions, isAbout, licenses

  1. Each of the three main data objects - Project, Study and Dataset - has a set of core properties that are required for any object instance to be valid, as well as a set of recommended properties that are not required for formal validation but represent valuable contextual metadata.