TableInfo: project.tsv

The C2M2 project entity is a generic container for groups of files, biosamples and/or subjects that are part of the same research endeavor.

At least one project must be defined for each program. The project.tsv table will have one row for each project you define for your program.

Please see the technical documentation for a complete treatment of how C2M2 projects are used, paying special attention to both the section on the project_in_project.tsv (subproject containment) table and also the section describing the project foreign key requirement for the primary_dcc_contact.tsv table.

Field	Field Description	Required?	Field Value Type	Extra Info
id_namespace	A CFDE-cleared identifier representing the top-level data space containing this project [part 1 of 2-component composite primary key]	Required	string	id_namespace is a unique URI prefix pre-registered with CFDE and attached to your program (or a subset of your program) that identifies anything labeled with it as belonging to you. Please see the technical documentation for a full discussion of how this information is built and used.
local_id	An identifier representing this project, unique within this id_namespace [part 2 of 2-component composite primary key]	Required	string	The string formed by concatenating the id_namespace and local_id field values must be unique for each row in this table. Please see the technical documentation for a full discussion of how this information is to be used.
persistent_id	A persistent, resolvable (not necessarily retrievable) URI or compact ID permanently attached to this project	Optional	string	Meant to serve as a permanent address to which landing pages (which summarize metadata associated with this project) and other relevant annotations and functions can optionally be attached. Please see the technical documentation for a full discussion of how this information is to be used.
creation_time	An ISO 8601 -; RFC 3339 (subset)-compliant timestamp documenting this file's creation time: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS±NN:NN	Non-required: Any number of rows after the header can be filled	Value must be datetime	Example valid dates: 2021-01-08 2021-01-08T00:45:40Z 2021-01-08T00:45:40+00:00
abbreviation	A very short display label for this project	Optional	string	Should not exceed 10 characters; can only contain 0-9, a-z, A-Z and underscore ("_")
name	A short, human-readable, machine-read-friendly label for this project	Required	string	Must be unique to each project.
description	A human-readable description of this project	Non-required: Any number of rows after the header can be filled	Value type is string	This is the display description for this project in the portal