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    The Semantic Data Dictionary- An Approach for Describing and Annotating Data

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    Rashid, Sabbir; McCusker, Jamie; Pinheiro, Paulo; Bax, Marcello; Santos, Henrique; Stingone, Jeanette; Das, Amar; McGuinness, Deborah
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    2020-04-01
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    Semantic Data Dictionaries (SDD)
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    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7583433/
    Abstract
    It is common practice for data providers to include text descriptions for each column when publishing datasets in the form of data dictionaries. While these documents are useful in helping an end-user properly interpret the meaning of a column in a dataset, existing data dictionaries typically are not machine-readable and do not follow a common specification standard. We introduce the Semantic Data Dictionary, a specification that formalizes the assignment of a semantic representation of data, enabling standardization and harmonization across diverse datasets. In this paper, we present our Semantic Data Dictionary work in the context of our work with biomedical data; however, the approach can and has been used in a wide range of domains. The rendition of data in this form helps promote improved discovery, interoperability, reuse, traceability, and reproducibility. We present the associated research and describe how the Semantic Data Dictionary can help address existing limitations in the related literature. We discuss our approach, present an example by annotating portions of the publicly available National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dataset, present modeling challenges, and describe the use of this approach in sponsored research, including our work on a large NIH-funded exposure and health data portal and in the RPI-IBM collaborative Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning, and Semantics project. We evaluate this work in comparison with traditional data dictionaries, mapping languages, and data integration tools.;
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    pages 443 - 486
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