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Best Practices

The caDSR Content Team has agreed to curation best practices that outline techniques and methods for techniques for efficiently and effectively curating metadata in the caDSR, based on repeatable processes.  The Best Practices are intended for metadata curators who have taken the requisite courses in the caCORE training curriculumcaDSR training curriculum.  Please note - if you have a patient reported outcome or health related quality of life measure, questionnaire, or survey for curation please contact the NCI Curation Team at caDSR.RA@mail.nih.gov.

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Best Practice

Effective Date

 Last Update

Data Element

Data Element Concept

Value Domain

Curation of Social/Behavioral Science Measures (Review Draft)

Curation of Social/Behavioral Science Measures: Manual Curation Only (Review Draft)

12/13/2010

 

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Using Qualifiers in Representation Term and Value Domain Long Names 2/11/2013   X
Specification for the Order of Qualifiers

11/8/2010

 
8/10/2015

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Selecting Preferred Concepts

 

7/16/2010

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11/
10
6/
2012 
2015

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Pre-Coordinated and Post-Coordinated Terms
 (Review Draft)

5/5/2010

 
9/17/2015

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Creating Short Names

for Common Data Elements, Data Element Concepts, and Value Domains

2/22/2010

 
6/8/2015

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Versioning Concepts

10/14/2009

 
6/8/2015

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Creating Derived Data Elements (DDE)

9/14/2009

 
 3/10/2014

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Creation and Maintenance of Value Meanings (VM) and Value Meaning Descriptions/Definitions (VMD) 

7/13/2009

 
 2/11/2013

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Checklist for Metadata Completeness

6/8/2009

 9/10/2012

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Using Representation Terms in Value Domains

4/13/2009

 
 5/13/2013

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Use of Integer Qualifier Concept (C45255)

2/11/2009

 
 11/12/2012

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Linking a Document or Other Resource Materials as caDSR Metadata

4/15/2008

 
 12/8/2015

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When creating a manually-curated definition, the system-generated definition does not need to be saved, and there is no need to notate the definition as "manually curated" or "system generated".

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