COVID information commons archive

The COVID Information Commons (CIC) is an open website portal and community to facilitate knowledge-sharing and collaboration across various COVID research efforts, funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator and the  NSF Technology, Innovation and Partnerships Directorate. The CIC serves as an open resource for researchers, students, and decision-makers from academia, government, not-for-profits and industry to identify collaboration opportunities, to leverage each other's research findings, and to accelerate the most promising research to mitigate the broad societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CIC was developed as a collaborative proposal led by the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, hosted by Columbia University, in collaboration with the Midwest Big Data Innovation Hub, South Big Data Innovation Hub, and West Big Data Innovation Hub.  It was funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator (NSF #2028999) in May  2020 and launched in July 2020.  The initial focus of the CIC website ..., The NSF and NIH funded COVID related awards corpus in the CIC was collected primarily from NSF and NIH via APIs. Further information has been collected directly from researchers, who filled out an online form to enhance the descriptions. 
The dataset has been cleaned and enhanced by automated processing, using custom scripts to remove invalid characters, and standardize names of funding agency divisions., , # COVID Information Commons Archive

This archive is a snapshot of the COVID Information Commons (CIC). The CIC is a live database that records information about COVID-19 researchers and their projects.

## Description of the data and file structure

The snapshot of the CIC contains the following files, each listed with a description of the fields it contains:

**cic_people_export.json** -- Researchers who have studied aspects of COVID-19. All information known about the researchers in CIC, except email addresses, which have been filtered out for privacy purposes. Some researchers have minimal information, as CIC may only know their name via a reference in a grant description. Other people have more complete records, if they have provided additional information to the CIC.

* affiliations -- organizational affiliations of the researcher (as described for cic_orgs_export.json)
* first_name -- researcher's first name
* last_name -- researcher's last name
* orcid -- researchers i...