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Adding New Annotations

Adding New Annotations

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Last updated: Feb 26, 2025 by Omer Kleiner

Use the Metadata tab to annotate your Dataset.

These steps describe how to annotate your dataset using the Default Schema. If you have created a Custom Schema (see the section titled Creating a Custom Schema in this article), you can follow the same steps described here, selecting your Custom Schema name instead of Default Schema in Step 2.

  1. Open the Dataset from the Datasets landing page and select the Metadata tab. 

  2. Under Existing Schema, select Default Schemas. The schemas that have already been completed in part or full are listed in the left panel, and their details are displayed in the right panel. This includes the Essential schema template with the information you entered at the time the Dataset was created.

  3. In the Schemas section on the right panel, click the Select schema to complete dropdown menu and select one of the Default schema templates or a Custom Schema created by you (see the section Creating a Custom Schema in this article). 

  1. Default schema categories include the following:

    • Contributors: Information about the persons or organizations who contributed to the Dataset.

    • Disease: Information about the disease condition.

    • Distribution: Information about the Dataset's distribution properties (format, web URL, authorization).

    • Essential: Basic information about the Dataset including the information collected when the Dataset was created and additional optional fields not collected at the time of Dataset creation.

    • Grant: Information about the grant that supported the work reported by the Dataset.

    • Subjects: Information about each data subject in the Dataset

  2. Enter the requested fields in the selected schema. If a field accepts multiple nested entries, click +Add Item to add more.

  3. Optional step: Click Save as Draft to exit and return to complete the entries later before saving them to your Dataset, or X Reset to clear all entries.

  4. When you’re ready to save the annotations to your Dataset, click Submit. 

The schema is saved and is displayed in the Existing Schema panel.

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