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, collecting metrics associated with Common Fund projects and providing them to the NIH. We do this in close collaboration with other Centers and NIH program staff.

This page contains instructions on how to submit your Common Fund project so that we can properly collect the required metrics on it.

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:

Submit your project

Many metrics about Common Fund projects – like grant details, publications, and citations – we can already automatically collect from public NIH resources. However, other metrics require some manual steps from project teams before we can collect them.

Here's how you can submit these other metrics. We've tried to make this process as easy and minimal 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 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). Don't 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 public webpages.

Currently, we only take submissions of webpages using Google Analytics. Other analytics services may be 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. Give us read 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 your core project number, e.g. cfde_U54OD036472. Don't confuse this with a (sub) "project" number, which is longer, e.g. 1U54OD036472-01.