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Bridging the Terminology Gap: Building User-Friendly Tools for FAIR Data Creation

Award Number: R50LM015244
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2026
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2028

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Bridging the Terminology Gap: Building User-Friendly Tools for FAIR Data Creation - Project Summary The NIH Strategic Plan for Data Science emphasizes the need for scalable, standards-driven infrastructure to support effective biomedical data sharing. A central component of that infrastructure is high-quality metadata— structured, semantically consistent annotations that make data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). While tools like the CEDAR Workbench and BioPortal have made it easier to use ontologies in metadata, a critical gap remains: the lack of robust infrastructure to manage the lifecycle of value sets, the curated collections of terms that underpin standardized metadata. This project will address that gap by building a general-purpose, modular infrastructure for value-set lifecycle management. The system will support value- set discovery, collaborative editing, validation, version tracking, and integration with ontology repositories. Designed for use across diverse NIH initiatives, the infrastructure will help ensure that metadata are consistent with domain standards, support reuse, and evolve reliably over time. By enabling researchers, curators, and informaticians to jointly create and manage reusable vocabularies, the new software will improve metadata quality and alignment with NIH data-sharing mandates. For metadata authors, it will streamline the process of defining terms that are semantically valid and contextually relevant. For repository users, it will enhance dataset comparability and enable better semantic search. For researchers seeking to reuse public data, it will reduce the need for manual harmonization and facilitate meaningful cross-study analysis. This work directly supports NIH’s vision of a connected, standards-based data ecosystem and advances the infrastructure needed to make that vision operational across the biomedical research landscape.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $231,343 )
2026	2026	THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY	450 JANE STANFORD WAY	STANFORD	CA	94305	SANTA CLARA	USA	Medical Library Assistance	000	1	6/25/2026	NEW	$231,343
														Subtotal = $231,343

Grand Total All Awards = $231,343

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Bridging the Terminology Gap: Building User-Friendly Tools for FAIR Data Creation

Award Number: R50LM015244

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2026

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2028

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