The MIDRC Interoperability Tool is a suite of Gen3 mesh software services and API adaptors written in Python that enable medical imaging data repositories to participate in a data mesh by sharing data, communicating, and exchanging information with other data resource, commons, and hubs.
This project is built with Python. Ensure you have Python 3.9 or later installed.
The MIDRC interoperability tools for discovery metadata aggregation use the Gen3 SDK extensively, which can be found in GitHub at https://github.com/uc-cdis/gen3sdk-python. The Gen3 Software Development Kit (SDK) for Python provides classes and functions for handling common tasks when interacting with a Gen3 commons. It also exposes a Command Line Interface (CLI). Working with APIs can be overwhelming, so the MIDRC API adaptors use the Gen3 Python SDK/CLI to simplify communication with various nodes in the biomedical imaging data mesh.
The tools utilized for MIDRC interact with the Gen3 API. For more information, see the service specifications of the Gen3 API.
MIDRC BIH leverages a data model in order to harmonize the discovery metadata aggregated across the data mesh. If you would like to view some sample submission templates, you can find them in this directory. Including for example, dataset.json, subject.json, etc.
Check out our CONTRIBUTING.md doc to learn how to contribute.