iPlant Data Commons

iPlant Data Commons leverages all elements of our CI to enhance data management,

discoverability, and reuse

Data Commons

• A data publication platform– with features to enhance data sharing,

discoverability and reuse– with data management/curation functions– to prepare data for ingest to canonical repositories

and or at iPLANT• Integration of information/metadata from

other iPLANT platforms

Data Commons components:

• existing CI elements (DE, Atmo, Data Store)• metadata “workflow” – automated and manual metadata entry

• cross-platform project and specimen frameworks

• enhanced browse and search capabilities• federation with external data sources

Metadata dictionary – mapping across existing vocabularies and standards

MIGS INSDC/MIGS

existing ontologies

DataCite DarwinCore

iPlantmetadata

Publishing from the Data Commons

iPlantmetadata

INSDC/MIGS

DataCite

dataset

publish to INSDC

publish with DOI

iPlant Data Commons: metadata workflow for the entire data lifecycle

specimen collection

analysis

project creation

publication

data discovery and re-use

Modular metadata workflow for the entire data lifecycle

project creation

Modular metadata workflow for the entire data lifecycle

specimencollection

project creation

Modular metadata workflow for the entire data lifecycle

specimencollection

analysis

project creation

Modular metadata workflow for the entire data lifecycle

specimencollection

analysis

project creation publication

Modular metadata workflow for the entire data lifecycle

specimencollection

analysis

project creation publication

data discovery and re-use