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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Deprecated as subsumed or superseded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
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