OMIA/EVA integration

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Clients

• Prof Frank Nicholas, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney
• A/Prof Imke Tammen, Faculty of Science, University of Sydney

Purpose

• To integrate 30+ years of records from the manually curated OMIA database into the international European Variation Archive (EVA), including resolving issues resulting from manual data entry.

Approach

• My role was project management.
• I was the only person with both software and biology experience on the team, so I had to provide substantial communication “translation”.
• Regular check-ins via email and Zoom, with both local and international partners, facilitated the progress of this project.

Outcome

• Records have been standardised (last bugfixes happening now) and will be part of the next EVA release.

Links

• OMIA
• EVA

Key tools

• git & GitHub; GitHub projects; Jira; Trello; email/Zoom..