Biomedical Research and Integrated Biobanking: An Innovative Paradigm for Heterogeneous Data Management

This doctoral thesisreports on an innovative data repository offering adaptive metadata managementto maximise information sharing and comprehension in multidisciplinary andgeographically distributed collaborations.  It approaches metadata as a fluid,loosely structured and dynamical process rather than a fixed product, anddescribes the development of a novel data management platform based on aschem...