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Our Projects
TDI undertakes strategic projects and provides targeted support to advance FAIR data methods and practices in the traumatic stress field.
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We prioritize projects that:
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Develop or extend tools and methods for FAIR data with broad applicability for traumatic stress field
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Develop or maintain traumatic stress data resources intended for re-use beyond the original investigators
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Enable meaningful sharing of data resources relevant to traumatic stress
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Several ongoing TDI projects are developing extensible, re-usable tools for archiving, harmonization, and annotation of traumatic stress research data and metadata. Building sustainable methods to maintain and expand FAIR data resources is a strategic priority.
FAIR Data Summit
In September 2023, TDI and the Global Collaboration on Traumatic Stress brought together 20 leaders of FAIR Data projects in the traumatic stress field for a two-day virtual expert summit.
Summit participants shared lessons learned as well as challenges and potential solutions. The Summit identified several high-priority next steps toward making our data more FAIR.
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One key outcome of the summit is a 2025 special article collection in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology.
See publications from this issue in Resources / Readings.
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More from the summit:
​Watch these brief video segments to hear from researchers leading integrative data projects:
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Or watch the entire video here.
Archiving and Harmonization Projects
TDI has provided support for data archiving and harmonization via the Child Trauma Data Archives (CTDA) project.
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CTDA is working to preserve standardized, harmonized datasets in a trusted long-term repository, ensuring the continued findability and accessibility of this unique set of FAIR child trauma data resources. Lessons learned in CTDA’s data harmonization and preservation work strengthen TDI’s ongoing development of tools and resources to be shared with other data integration projects.
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The CTDA team works with TDI to develop tools with broader application to the traumatic stress field, and the CTDA project serves as a testing ground for these methods.
Building Annotation Tools
TDI is working with the developers of the Paper Authoring Tool (PAT) to adapt and extend the tool’s capabilities for traumatic stress research.
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Our aim is to facilitate FAIR data practices and support evidence synthesis at multiple points across the research lifecycle, from datasets to publications.
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The PAT offers a user-friendly ‘wizard’ that captures key elements regarding a research study. Investigators then export a formatted Word document that serves as a first draft of a research paper, as well as a shareable file containing machine-readable metadata.
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TDI and the PAT team are collaborating to adapt the wizard and tools for traumatic stress research content and to encompass metadata annotation of datasets.