CFDE Evaluation Submission

Overview

The Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) is an effort to bring together knowledge across NIH Common Fund programs into a cohesive resource.

We are the Integration and Coordination Center (ICC), a center within the CFDE responsible for, among other things, gathering metrics for reporting on the impact and influence of the CFDE.

This page contains instructions on how to submit your Common Fund project so that we can gather metrics on it and submit it to the NIH for evaluation as required.

Contact

If you have any questions, suggestions, comments, or feedback, please file a new issue, or contact one of the current maintainers/team members directly:

• Casey Greene - Evaluation Core Lead
• Sean Davis - Evaluation Core Lead
• Vincent Rubinetti (@vincerubinetti) - Software developer

Submit your project

We gather most details about Common Fund projects automatically from NIH systems, but there are some pieces of info that require manual actions to be integrated. We've tried to make this process as easy and automated as possible.

Submit software repositories

Repositories ("repos") are places for storing, tracking changes to, and collaborating on software.

Currently, we only take submissions of software kept in public GitHub.com repos. Private repos and other platforms such as GitLab aren't supported yet.

1. Find all GitHub repos that are associated with your project.
   1. If you're unsure where to find these, ask members of your project about any software that was written in support of it, and where the code for the software resides.
2. "Tag" each repo with the project.
   1. See GitHub's instructions for tagging repos for reference.
   2. On the main page of the repo, click on the gear ⚙ next to "About".
   3. Under "Topics", type in your core project number†, e.g. U54OD036472 (case-insensitive).

This repository itself has been tagged with its core project number, so use it as a reference.

† Do not confuse this with a (sub) "project" number, which is longer, e.g. 1U54OD036472-01.

Submit analytics

Analytics are services that monitor traffic (number of visits over time, number of unique visitors, visitor demographics, etc.) on publicly accessible webpages.

Currently, we only take submissions of webpages using Google Analytics. Other analytics services may supported in the future.

1. Find all Google Analytics properties that are associated with your project.
   1. If you're unsure where to find these, ask members of your project about any webpages related to it, and if anyone set up analytics for them.
2. Allow us access to each property.
   1. Go to the Google Analytics dashboard and make sure you are on the right property.
   2. Find "Property Access Management" from the main search bar (or the "Admin" side menu).
   3. Add a new user with the email api-access@cfde-icc-eval-core-433116.iam.gserviceaccount.com, uncheck "Notify by email", and select the "Viewer" role.
3. "Tag" each property so we can associate it with a particular project.
   1. Find "Key Events" from the "Admin" side menu,under "Data Display".
   2. Create a new key event with the name cfde_XXX (case-insensitive), where XXX is the core project number, e.g. cfde_R03OD034502.