National health data catalogue

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Aug 23, 2024
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DATE: 23-08-2024 STATUS: ADOPTED

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This article describes the national health catalogue. See also the requirements that the national health data catalogue must meet.

Context

A catalogue consists of

  • a front-end portal in which a user can search for data

  • a catalogue that manages descriptions of datasets available to the portal

  • one or more FAIR data points that are the source of metadata for the catalogue

A FAIR data point can be configured locally as a stand-alone application or integrated into a platform (e.g. Molgenis). See also: Metadata onboarding on the National Health Data Catalogue

 

 

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Landscape applications and actors

 

See also the following alternative configurations:

National health data catalogue (NHC) components

The NHC consists of two parts

  • the frontend where the user searches within the catalog metadata

  • the backend that:

    • responds to search and consultation actions that the user does on the front end

    • ensures that the catalogue remains up to date by updating the metadata from the FAIR data points

 

 

Details

The catalogue frontend is built on Next.js

The catalogue backend consists of

  • CKAN, an open-source data management system hosted by ISO 27001 certified partner Civity, GNU AGPLv3 license used by EU, NHS. (eng Open-source data management system hosted by ISO 27001 certified partner Civity, GNU AGPLv3 licensed used by EU, NHS) for the storage of the (meta)data

    • The default CKAN metadata harvester has been modified to support FAIR data points

  • SOLR, an open source search platform built on Apache Lucene (Open-source enterprise search platform built on Apache Lucene) is used (as CKAN plugin) for the search functionality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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