The BioSharing portal - linking journal and funder data policies to databases and data standards in...

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