Peter McQuilton@drosophilic/@biosharing
The BioSharing portal - linking journal and funder data policies to
databases and data standards in the life, biomedical and environmental
sciences
RDA 9th Plenary, 5-7 April 2017, Barcelona, Spain
• A web-based, curated and searchable portal that monitors the
development and evolution of standards, their use in
databases and the adoption of both in data policies,
to inform and educate
Complex and evolving landscape
Data policies by funders, journals and other organizations
Databases, tools and services
Content standards
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Models/Formats = Conceptual
model, conceptual schema,
exchange formats
Terminologies = Controlled
vocabularies, taxonomies,
thesauri, ontologies etc.
Guidelines = Minimum information
reporting requirements, checklists
Content standards
Data policies by funders, journals and other organizations
Databases, tools and services
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Complex and evolving landscape
Helping users make
the right decision
My funder’s data policy recommends the use of established standards, but which are widely endorsed and applicable to my clinical disease data?
We need a standard for sharing cell line data, what’s out there and who should we talk to?
I have some old rice genomic data in format X, which is now deprecated; what format has replaced X?
What databases are heavily supported in the community that we should recommend to our authors?
Data PolicyList of their
recommended databases and standards
Data Policy
Visualizing the relationships between data…
Data Policy
…to inform and educate on existing and new resources
Standard developing groups, incl.:Journals/publishers, incl.:
BioTools
Cross-links and data exchange, incl.:
Societies and organisations, incl.: Institutional RDM services, incl.:
Projects/programmes, incl.:
Working with the community/adopters
WG output available now
• End of 18 month lifespan at RDA P9• 2 outputs:• A set of recommendations for how one can link
databases, standards and data policies (using the life sciences as an example)• The BioSharing registry itself, improved through
feedback from the RDA and Force11 communities• We will continue to be active after the WG finishes, in
ELIXIR, RDA, and Force11
RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG
RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG
Acknowledgements
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