isatab_archive.zip (12.4 MB)
Scientific Data ISA-Tab metadata archive
This dataset consists of all of the ISA-Tab format metadata files accompanying Data Descriptors published in Scientific Data from journal launch in May 2014 to September 2019 inclusive. In the September 2020 the journal transitioned to a JSON-LD format for these metadata files.
The dataset consists of a single ZIP archive containing sub-directories for each Data Descriptor's metadata. Each directory is given a unique identifier based on the publication's DOI. More information on the metadata specification can be found on the journal blog, here: http://blogs.nature.com/scientificdata/2014/01/08/scientific-datas-metadata-specification/
Prior to release, all investigation files were processed to remove a number of redundant and unnecessary data fields. For this reason, they will differ slightly from the versions still hosted alongside the papers on the Scientific Data journal website. Specifically, the following fields have been removed:
* Comment[Subject Keywords]
* Comment[Supplementary Information File Name]
* Comment[Supplementary Information File Type]
* Comment[Supplementary Information File URL]
The tool used to perform this processing is freely available on Github: https://github.com/joeasalter/scidata-isatab-cleaner