Data Standards & Best Practices
Explore tools and resources developed by the Bridge2AI Standards, Practices, & Quality Assessments Working Group
About Bridge2AI Data Standards
Bridge2AI’s data standards efforts support the consistent, high-quality collection, sharing, and reuse of biomedical and behavioral data across all Bridge2AI Grand Challenges. This work is guided by the Standards, Practices, and Quality Assessment Working Group, which brings together community input to define and coordinate best practices for how data are structured, evaluated, and shared.
These standards are designed to be broadly applicable beyond Bridge2AI, support reproducible and credible scientific outputs, and evolve over time with clear documentation and provenance. Through shared tools, transparent benchmarking, quality assessment, and open, collaborative development, Bridge2AI enables practical adoption of data standards across the broader research community.
What is AI-Readiness?
AI-readiness describes how well data can be used—responsibly and effectively—for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). This includes using data to train models, organize or classify information, and generate predictions that are ethical and understandable. The Bridge2AI consortium has defined clear criteria that biomedical datasets must meet to be considered AI-ready.
These standards are designed to be broadly applicable beyond Bridge2AI, support reproducible and credible scientific outputs, and evolve over time with clear documentation and provenance. Through shared tools, transparent benchmarking, quality assessment, and open, collaborative development, Bridge2AI enables practical adoption of data standards across the broader research community.
AI-Readiness Criteria
Defines ethical criteria for AI-ready biomedical data, developed collaboratively by 18 institutions and widely cited.
AI-Readiness Guides
Explore Bridge2AI publications that provide domain-specific recommendations for preparing biomedical data for AI and machine learning.
Standards Explorer
A searchable web platform for discovering and exploring data standards used across Bridge2AI projects, designed to improve transparency, consistency, and reuse.
Other Standards Tools
Explore additional Bridge2AI tools designed to support data standards, interoperability, and AI-ready research workflows.
Datasheets for Datasets
Extends the original datasheet framework to include AI-readiness and regulatory considerations, implemented using LinkML, schema.org, and FAIRSCAPE with automated validation support.
Metadata Management
Establishes a shared metadata framework across all Bridge2AI Grand Challenges, building on SMAPS and RO-Crate packaging and aligned with CFDE’s C2M2 to improve clinical data modeling and integration.
Model Cards Support
Provides standardized documentation for AI models, aligned with Hugging Face model cards and implemented in LinkML and FAIRSCAPE to support transparency and responsible AI use.
Standards Developer Organizations and Biomedical Data Utility
Offers recommendations for how standards developer organizations can modify or extend existing standards to better support modern biomedical data use, including AI readiness.
