ELIXIR Chief Technical Officer, Rafael Jimenez, presents an overview talk highlighting technical areas of common interest between ELIXIR and the BioCADDIE project, the US led initiative which aims to create a 'biomedical and healthCAre Data Discovery Index Ecosystem'.
The bioCADDIE is developing a data discovery index (DDI) prototype which will index data stored elsewhere. The DDI will play an important role in promoting data integration through the adoption of content standards and alignment to common data elements and high-level schema. A DDI could provide the means to test the utility of these standards. It could serve as an incubator to spur the types of quality metrics that currently are being developed around article metrics, including citation analysis and altmetrics.