Wellcome Report on Public Health Dataset Discoverability, July 2014

Wellcome commissioned research to evaluate how forum partners could make research datasets easier for potential users to discover and re-use. The report was completed in July 2014 by a team led by Dr Tito Castillo at the University of Cambridge, with partners from the Farr Institute, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Open Data Foundation, Ubiquity Press, and the UK Data Archive.

Use Cases

• Analyze barriers to dataset discoverability based on the commissioned research report.
• Design data discovery platforms based on the evaluation of forum partners.
• Develop metadata standards for public health data based on the report's findings.

Strengths

• Report was commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, a major research funder.
• Research team was led by a University of Cambridge researcher with multiple institutional partners.
• The report has a specific completion date of July 2014.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

University of Cambridge (lead), with partners from the Farr Institute, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Open Data Foundation, Ubiquity Press, and the UK Data Archive.

Collection Method

Commissioned research report.

Time Range

Report completed July 2014.