About these pages
In the following you will find instructions on how to register a data dictionary with the IHCC data harmonization effort and map it to our Genomics Cohorts Knowledge Ontology (GECKO). More information about the IHCC in general can be found at https://ihccglobal.org/.
The IHCC data harmonization effort facilitates the integration of cohort data under a common terminology, the Genomics Cohorts Knowledge Ontology (GECKO). You can find our more about GECKO here.
There are three major roles in the IHCC data harmonization effort:
- The data dictionary maintainer is the individual or group responsible for a particular data dictionary, such as the Genomics England (GE) data dictionary or the Golestan Cohort Study (GCS) data dictionary.
- The IHCC data steward is the point person (for the data dictionary maintainers) on the IHCC side, and responsible for guiding the data dictionary maintainer through the process of mapping a data dictionary to GECKO.
- The IHCC DevOps engineer is the responsible for the maintenance and deployment of our terminology services, namely:
- The IHCC ontology lookup service: https://registry.ihccglobal.app/index
- The IHCC mapping service: https://mapping.ihccglobal.app/zooma/
- The IHCC mapping browser: https://mapping.ihccglobal.app/search
Quick links for data dictionary maintainers:
- Instructions on how to map your data dictionary to our Genomics Cohorts Knowledge Ontology (GECKO).
- If you want to raise an issue with the mapping process and you are familiar with GitHub, you can create a ticket on the IHCC data harmonization tracker. Otherwise you can always send an email to ihcc-browser@googlegroups.com.
IHCC data stewards documentation
- Informations on how to map a data dictionary to our Genomics Cohorts Knowledge Ontology (GECKO).
IHCC DevOps documentation
- Instructions for the IHCC DevOps engineers.