Peter McQuilton @drosophilic/@biosharing The BioSharing portal - linking databases, data standards and policies in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences RDA 9 th Plenary, IGAD meeting, 5-7 April 2017, Barcelona, Spain
Peter McQuilton@drosophilic/@biosharing
The BioSharing portal - linking databases, data standards and
policies in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences
RDA 9th Plenary, IGAD meeting, 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
By grass-rootsgroups, e.g.:
By standard organizations, e.g.:
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 crop data?
We need a standard for sharing farm 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 databases
Ready for use, implementation, or recommendation
In development
Status uncertain
Deprecated as subsumed or superseded
Manually curated and verified by the community behind each
resource
Track evolution
Track evolution
Data PolicyList of their
recommended databases and standards
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
Acknowledgements