the biosharing portal - linking databases, data standards and policies in the life, biomedical and...

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Deprecated as subsumed or superseded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