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Milestone - Harmonizing environmental science standards support linking of climate data (2.9) #501

Open ssarrafan opened 8 months ago

ssarrafan commented 8 months ago

Environmental science standards to support linking with microbiome data While there are many existing challenges to fully leverage microbiome data for climate science (11), a tangible, near-term challenge that can be addressed is the need to support linked data standards for relevant environmental processes, environmental variables, and environment types. Similar challenges have been addressed for genomic medicine applications where gene and health outcome data standards were modeled (e.g., Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (15) and Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (16)) and standardized vocabularies such as Systematized Nomenclature of Medical Terms (17)) were developed. To study the association between microscale processes all the way to the ecosystem scale, it is essential to compare variables across studies through meta-analyses which is only possible through standardizing data. Thus, we aim to catalyze interoperable ‘planetary health records’ through the creation of metadata crosswalks between all elements in the NMDC schema and multiple different environmental standards (Milestone 2.9).

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ssarrafan commented 4 months ago

@cmungall this milestone is not due till 2025 but will need to give an update on this for the next quarterly DOE report.