Concepts

The Study Creator and Data Tracker have a number of important conceptual terms that are used to convey certain ideas. Here is a list and definition of the most commonly encountered concepts.

Study

The Study is the top most collection of data in the Kids First Data Resource Center. Studies are funded individually and each have a lead Investigator responsible for the data. The primary interaction with a Study in the Data Tracker is through uploading and organizing Documents that are necessary for a Study’s ingest into the Kids First Portal.

Document

A Document symbolizes the ideal and complete formulation of a specific subset of a Study’s data. The essence of a Document may need to be iterated on, improving the underlying representation to better match the true form of the Document.

Version

An version is a materialization of a Document in the form of an on-disk representation. It tracks the exact file contents at a given point.