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Managing metadata and policy around metadata in NMDC
https://microbiomedata.github.io/nmdc-schema/
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evaluate CORDA for use as curation process / UI #368

Open dwinston opened 3 years ago

dwinston commented 3 years ago

As @dehays notes in #343, we don't have a curation process / UI whereby folks such as @pvangay, who are in contact with study PIs, can add/update metadata without being required to update a source database such as GOLD. Curation events should be possible, and recorded as part of the provenance of metadata, because updating primary source databases is sometimes intractable.

Several metadata errors have been tagged as issues, and developing a workable curation process for use ASAP (this month) has been requested by @kfagnan et al.

I was recently introduced to Corda, which is a system with a built-in web UI for managing collections of JSON-Schema-conformant documents, and for editing (based on the schema) and saving versions of documents.

I don't think the Cordra UI is suitable for metadata submission (#332), but I do think it could be a good fit for metadata curation by NMDC staff, where the curation events recorded by Cordra could feed into the broader NMDC ETL process.

dehays commented 3 years ago

Further investigation / trial after June sprint / quarterly release