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Title: Vivli (generalist data repository)

Intro

Vivli is an independent, non-profit organization that develops and supports a global data-sharing and analytics platform. The Vivli platform provides a generalist data repository, comprehensive search engine, and a secure research environment.[1]

Through the development and implementation of a sustainable worldwide data-sharing enterprise, Vivli aims to promote, coordinate, and support sharing and reuse of clinical research data for scientific purposes. Vivli acts as a neutral connector among data contributors, data users, and the wider data sharing community. [2]

Vivli is a member of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative, established to enable improved search, discovery, and re-use of NIH-funded clinical trial data. [3] Members of the GREI support compliance with NIH’s Data Management and Sharing (DMS) policy[4] to promote sharing scientific data in order to accelerate biomedical research discovery, in part, by enabling validation of research results, providing accessibility to high-value datasets, and promoting data reuse for future research studies. [5]

Vivli is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories (re3data.org).

Concept

Using Vivli, more important clinical research data may be shared, collected, reused, and analyzed on a worldwide scale. Vivli’s larger goal is to respect and recognize the contributions of clinical research participants and to advance human health through supporting the sharing and re-use of clinical research data.[6]

Characteristics/Features

A secure research environment, comprehensive search engine, and independent data repository are all standard features of the Vivli platform. Users of Vivli can browse research, ask for data sets from data producers, aggregate data, or share their own data.[2]

History

Vivli evolved from a project of The Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard (MRCT Center) to enhance access to clinical trials data by promoting data sharing and transparency. In 2013, the MRCT Center and a diverse group of global stakeholders embarked on a mission to define, design and launch a solution to global clinical trial data sharing. [2]

Governance

Vivli is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors, one of whom also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the organization’s day-to-day activities. Organizational oversight is supported by the Vivli Steering Committee and External Advisory Committee, who consult with Vivli’s leadership on operational, governance, and policy issues.[6]

Funding

Vivli is a non-profit organization that provides individual user access to share, aggregate, re-use, and analyze data at no or minimal cost. Vivli is able to provide free access to data due to financial support from members, partners, and institutional data submitters. Submission fees where applicable are established to sustain Vivli’s core functions.[2]

Software

The Vivli platform has been designed and built entirely as an application within the Microsoft Azure Cloud to ensure the security of the anonymized clinical trial participant data that it hosts.[6]