Community vocabularies for consortia (beta)

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This section describes an early-stage feature under active development, currently targeted at research consortia.

We are actively developing support for Neurobagel "community" vocabularies: custom standardized vocabularies of terms which are curated and governed by research consortia. This feature allows you to use more detailed or domain-specific standardized terms than are available in the core set of external ontologies provided by Neurobagel, providing more precision when harmonizing phenotypic data across sites in your consortium.

Neurobagel services provide early-stage support for community vocabularies. For example, members of your consortium can use our beta annotation tool to annotate their tabular data with your specific community vocabulary.

Example of community vocabulary selection in the beta annotation tool:

We have developed an initial workflow for creating a community vocabulary of assessment terms for Neurobagel. If your research consortium is interested in being onboarded as a Neurobagel community, we invite you to contact the Neurobagel maintainer team.

For more information on creating a community vocabulary for your consortium, see the neurobagel/communities repository.