Accelerating Access to Individual Participant-Level Data via the Vivli Platform

Data repositories (such as IDDO and Vivli) have played a significant role in making research data available for secondary use. However, access to data needs to be further enhanced for accelerated innovations on infectious diseases by addressing the friction in data contribution, discoverability, access, and reuse. There is a strong alignment between Vivli the Wellcome's visions of improving the discovery and accessibility of Individual Participant Data related to COVID-19 in the short term, and for other infectious diseases in the long term. With this grant we seek direct support for discoverability and accessibility of data related to COVID-19, and to directly support Vivli to become an effective node in the "FAIR Data Network". The grant will focus on the following primary objectives: Recognition and credit for data contributions, Accelerated access to Individual Participant Data (IPD) hosted by Vivli, Discoverability of IDDO studies via the Vivli platform, and Discoverability of IPD hosted by Vivli and its platform partners (including IDDO) based on rich metadata).