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ELIXIR All Hands 2017, 21-23 March, Rome, Italy

BioSharing: standards, databases and policies in the life sciences

Peter McQuilton

RDA 9th Plenary, 2017, 5-7 April, Barcelona, Spain

BioSharing: a resource of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform

• 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

Mapping a 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

Mapping a complex and evolving landscape

Mapping a 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?

Indicators to describe the status of standards and

databasesReady for use, implementation, or recommendation

In development

Status uncertain

Deprecated as subsumed or superseded

Manually curated and verified by the community behind each

resource

Finding and Accessing the data

Collections group

together one or more types

of resource by domain,

project or organization.

Recommendations are a

core-set of resources that

are selected and

recommended by a funder

or journal data policy.

Grouping the data

Data Policy

Visualizing the relationships between data…

Data PolicyList of their

recommended databases and standards

…to inform and educate on existing and new resources

Standard developing groups .:

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

• 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

Go to https://www.biosharing.org/new to add or claim your database or

standard