This page provides an overview of the technical services which the Data Coordination Center offers which are acessible to end users.

Core Services are those which are crucial to the continued operation of the BioMedIT federated Trusted Research Environment. They are used by the BioMedIT nodes and data providers to serve research projects. As they are crucial to the operation of services from the Nodes, they are offered under a Service Level Agreement which provides guarantees as to how the services are delivered.

The BioMedIT portal provides a platform for managing research projects operating on BioMedIT nodes. It is a centrally managed location for project creating user management and provision of access using federated identity management. The portal also holds encryption keys for authorised users and logs of data transfers and access to services in order to support security and traceability of BioMedIT services.

Exploratory servces are those which are developed and tested by DCC for delivery to end users, but which are more experimental and offered without servie availability guarantees.

The Terminology Service is an automated platform that provides access to a variety of clinical and biomedical terminologies in the context of the SPHN. The service's goal is to make it easier for the SPHN community to use and adopt these terminologies. The service offers machine-readable versions of terminologies in RDF formats (.ttl or .owl) that are compatible with SPHN. These terminologies include national terminologies like CHOP and ICD-10 GM, as well as international terminologies like SNOMED CT, LOINC, ATC, UCUM, HGNC, and GENO. 

SchemaScope allows for interactive exportation of the SPHN RDF schema, which provides an interoperable framework for conveying information and storing health-related data from SPHN-related projects using Semantic Web technologies including RDF.

The SPHN Schema Forge simplifies the process of generating a SPHN-compliant RDF schema, human-readable HTML representation of the RDF schema as well as SHACL shapes and SPARQL queries for data quality checks. It allows researchers to easily create those resources by only uploading a SPHN-compliant dataset in Excel format.

We provide support for the SPHN Connector, a containerized solution that allows data-providing institutions to build a pipeline that converts their data from relational or JSON sources into graph data based on a RDF schema conforming to the SPHN Framework.  We support the deployment of the SPHN connector at hospitals and other data providing institutions, and support for its us in preparing data for use in BioMedIT.

FQS is an information retrieval systems enabling researchers to query for specific clinical information of patients have so far been limited to individual clinics or single hospitals.  It facilitates search for fully anonymized clinical information across all five university hospitals in Switzerland, while allowing the hospitals to retain full control over their data.

DCC techncial services are delivered under a Service Level Agreement which describes how they are provided and what promises are made about them.