1. NIF Data Federation
and Concept Mapping Tool
Yueling LI
NIF Hackathon 2013
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2. Overview
• Provides the ability to drill down into individually
hosted databases and data sets and return relevant
content
• Register your database with NIF, please email
curation@neuinfo.org
• NIF's full listing of federated data
http://neurolex.org/wiki/Category:Resource:NIF_Dat
a_Federation
• Indexing 232 databases and including 358,230,304
single records
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4. Concept Mapping Tool
• Developed to manage Data Federation resources
• Used for
– Setting up the table and view
– Setting up the column definitions and mapping
– Setting up the database column contents to be exported to
Google Refine for the mapping of the concepts
– Providing back-end support services
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11. Curator guideline
• https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/NIF/
Resources+and+Curation#ResourcesandCurati
on-
NIFDataFederationResource(Deeplyintegrated
resources
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12. NIF integrated virtual databases
• Integrated related data from multiple databases
and combines them into one view for easier
browsing
• NIF Integrated Animals
• NIF Integrated BGE
• NIF Integrated Cell Lines
• NIF Integrated CT
• NIF Integrated Disease
• NIF integrated GDI
• NIF Integrated NSC
• NIF Integrated Podcast
• NIF Integrated Software
• NIF Integrated Video
• NIFBlogs/NIFJobs/NIFNews
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