Big Data to Knowledge

{{short description|British National Institutes of Health project}}

Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) is a project of the National Institutes of Health for knowledge extraction from big data.

BD2K was founded in 2013 in response to a report from the Working Group on Data and Informatics for the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health.{{cite journal|last1=Ohno-Machado|first1=L.|title=NIH's Big Data to Knowledge initiative and the advancement of biomedical informatics|journal=Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association|volume=21|issue=2|year=2014|pages=193|issn=1067-5027|doi=10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002666|pmc=3932475|pmid=24509598}}

A significant part of BD2K's plans is to have organizations make plans to share their research data when they make a proposal in response to a funding opportunity announcement.{{cite web |url= http://biomedicalcomputationreview.org/content/nih-announcement-big-data-gets-big-support |title=NIH Announcement: Big Data Gets Big Support | Biomedical Computation Review |first=Katharine |last=Miller |work=biomedicalcomputationreview.org |date=19 February 2013 |accessdate=28 July 2014}}

Philip Bourne was the lead in managing the project until early 2017.{{cite journal|last1=Margolis|first1=R.|last2=Derr|first2=L.|last3=Dunn|first3=M.|last4=Huerta|first4=M.|last5=Larkin|first5=J.|last6=Sheehan|first6=J.|last7=Guyer|first7=M.|last8=Green|first8=E. D.|title=The National Institutes of Health's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative: capitalizing on biomedical big data|journal=Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association|year=2014|issn=1067-5027|doi=10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002974|volume=21|issue=6 |pages=957–958|pmid=25008006|pmc=4215061}}