Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) is a project of the
National Institutes of Health
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH (with each letter pronounced individually), is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late ...
for
knowledge extraction
Knowledge extraction is the creation of knowledge from structured (relational databases, XML) and unstructured (text, documents, images) sources. The resulting knowledge needs to be in a machine-readable and machine-interpretable format and must r ...
from
big data
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
.
BD2K was founded in 2013 in response to a report from the Working Group on Data and Informatics for the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
A significant part of BD2K's plans is to have organizations make plans to share their research data when they make a proposal in response to a
funding opportunity announcement.
was the lead in managing the project until early 2017.
References
External links
*{{official website, http://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k
National Institutes of Health
Big data