[Source]: Project Tycho

[EmilyHaag]

Source Name

Project Tycho

Source URL

https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/

Source Description

Project Tycho is an open-access database comprising 3.6 million counts of infectious disease cases and deaths reported for over a century by public health surveillance in the United States. It contains pre-compiled dataset records.

Source Access

No access issue, account not needed

Source Funding

MIDAS Coordination Center (MCC), the National Institutes of Health (NIGMS)

Source Relevance

Historical data from Project Tycho provides a unique perspective, enabling researchers to analyze long-term disease trends, assess the impact of interventions, and model the evolution of diseases over time. This historical data adds depth to analyses and supports diverse research initiatives. This source was prioritized for inclusion by ODSET.

Related WBS task

• Check here if this repository is funded by NIAID (https://github.com/NIAID-Data-Ecosystem/nde-roadmap/issues/11)
• Check here if this repository only has IID data (https://github.com/NIAID-Data-Ecosystem/nde-roadmap/issues/12)
• Check here if this is a generalist repository with IID data (https://github.com/NIAID-Data-Ecosystem/nde-roadmap/issues/12)

For internal use only. Assignee, please select the status of this issue

• Not yet started
• In process
• Blocked
• Will not include

Status Description

No response

Source to-do list

• License check- Can this source be included?
• Class check- Does this source have the right class of research output for inclusions?
• NIAID Review- Does NIAID approve of the inclusion of this source?
• Data access check- Have data access issues been resolved?
• Structured data check- Does this source have structured data?
• Mapping check- Has the properties from this source been mapped to the schema?
• Parser check- Has the parser been written?
• Parsed data check- Has a sanity check on the data obtained from this source been performed?
• Merge data- Has the crawler/plugin been successfully integrated with the system?
• Issues could not be resolved - Add as a single record via the DDE

[gtsueng]

Note that Project TYCHO may post their datasets to Zenodo, so we'll need to handle the records post-build in the same fashion that we handle DRYAD, leveraging the DOI