TEDI guidelines expansion for data collection and sharing

The mexican project (Programa de Análisis de sustancias - PAS) is working together with the NGO Deliberar towards building a national early alert system with their government (Observatorio Nacional de Drogas). The Organization of American States (OAS) has entrusted Deliberar representatives to be its advisors for the development of the observatory.

The development of PAS provides a suitable framework for developing an open source and standardized toolset for any organization offering Drug-Checking services. The toolset will enable an organization to be ready to collect data and will provide them with an easy way to share their data with a global early warning system (i.e. TEDI, EMCDDA).

This repository contains a YAML file with a proposed expansion schema of the TEDI Guidelines for Drug Checking Data collection tedi_schema.yaml. It's definitions will be implemented during the development and testing of the Observatory's toolset allowing for an oppen contribution to the evaluation and update of the guidelines.

The general proposal includes:

1. Making the TEDI guidelines FAIR compliant by defining:

   • Data annotation protocols with queriable universal unique identifiers UUIDs (Findability)
   • Data access, sharability, and anonymization protocols (Accessability)
   • Requirement levels for the fields (Interoperability)
   • Data types of each field (Variables) (Reusability)
   • A vocabulary_set data type for specific fields (I, R)

2. Defining a TEDI Minimal Standard.

Based on the current version of the TEDI guidelines, the FAIR-compliant minimal standard will provide an organization with the core information needed for a Drug-Checking service to be able to start working and set up their tools for data collection and sharing.

3. Defining TEDI's Standard Expansions -Xp that are context-specific:

   • Testing methods Xps, expansions for the data collection according to the performed testing method
   • Types of service Xps, expansions for the data collection according to the type of service (consumption room, festival setting, street outreach)

4. Developing data collection tools implementing the TEDI standards.

   • A prototipe tool using the TEDI schema is under development at: https://github.com/ViewsOnDrugs/deliberar_db

5. Involve existing and future drug-checking services to take part of the development of the standards and data collection tools.

Sources:

PAS: https://www.analizatusustancia.org/iniciativa.html

TEDI Network https://www.tedinetwork.org/

Collaborators:

Deliberar https://deliberar.org/

VIVID e.V. https://vivid-hamburg.de/