BioSharing.orgCross-linked metadata standards, repositories and the

data policies - The BioSharing Information and Education Resource

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Peter McQuilton

BioSharing Content Lead

@biosharing

Outline

• What is BioSharing?

• How do we describe and link standards?

• Exploring the landscape of standards, databases

and data policies in the life sciences

• The BioSharing RDA/FORCE 11 WG – working with

the community

What is BioSharing?

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 the user community.

What is BioSharing?

Standards are digital objects too and we make them FAIR

Data policies by funders, journals and other organizations

(>100)

Database, tools and services

(>1000)

Content standards(>700)

Complex and evolving landscape

Formats Terminologies Guidelines

Helping users make the right decision

How do we describe and link standards

Linking standards and databases to training material

Ready for use, implementation, or recommendation

In development

Status uncertain

Deprecated as subsumed or superseded

Manually curated, approved by the community

Using indicators to describe the ‘status’ of a resource

https://biosharing.org/collection/EuroBioImaging

Discover standards, databases, policies, and their relationships

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.

Different cuts of the data

“BioSharing and its interactive browser will allow us to discover which databases and standards are not currently included in our author guidelines, enabling us to regularly monitor and refine our policies as appropriate, in support of our mission to help our authors enhance the reproducibility of their work.” – Holly Murray, F1000Research

What we do

Inform – what’s out there, which databases use which standards. Map the landscape.

Educate – what databases are recommended by your funder, or journal of choice, which standards should you be using, which standards and databases should you recommend? Explore the landscape.

Aims of the BioSharing WG• To develop principles for linking information on

databases, content standards and journal and funder data policies in the life sciences• To develop a curated registry (running since 2011),

to access and cross-search this information, such that a variety of stakeholders can make decisions on which standards and databases to use or endorse

Standards Registry Survey: • 533 responses from RDA, FORCE11, NIH (US), ELIXIR (UK)• Provides a review of BioSharing content and

functionality• Defines BioSharing activities under the US NIH BD2K

initiative, and the European excelerate interoperability package

• 10 questions, detailing content, functionality and indicators of standards maturity/use etc.

BioSharing Standards Survey – January 2016

The Standards Registry Survey Shows:

• BioSharing already fulfills ~80% of user needs, which:• are not limited to standards but extend to databases

and policies• require an (curated) informational and educational

system, not simply a registry.

• BioSharing is uniquely positioned because of its cross-linked content types, functionalities, community endorsement and user base.

BioSharing Standards Survey – January 2016

Adopters/users of BioSharing

Infrastructure:

Institutional RDM services:

Standard developing communities:

Projects/programmes:

Journal Publishers:

Ongoing engagements

• Funders - • Journal Publishers - • Societies –• Infrastructure -

Thanks to the RDA!

Come and talk to us!

Advisory Board Operational Team