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BioSharing aims to develop guidelines for linking information on databases, content standards, and data policies in life sciences to ensure data findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. The curated registry aids stakeholders in decision-making.
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BioSharing – connecting data policies, standards & databases in the life sciencesBioSharing WG Peter McQuilton, PhD Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Rebecca Lawrence and Simon Hodson rd-alliance.org
What challenges did the WG face? What were the aims? • To develop guidelines for linking information on databases, content standardsand journal and funder data policiesin the life sciences Data policies by funders, journals and other organizations (100s) Database, tools and services (>1000) Formats Terminologies Guidelines Data/metadata standards (650+) rd-alliance.org
What challenges did the WG face? What were the aims? • 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 https://www.biosharing.org rd-alliance.org
What is BioSharing? A web-based, curated and searchable portal thatmonitors the development and evolutionof standards, their usein databases and the adoption of both in datapolicies, to inform and educate the user community. rd-alliance.org
Describe the output – biosharing.org rd-alliance.org
What are the ramifications of not having the problem resolved? • Standards are reinvented • Databases use the wrong standards • Data policies fail to endorse appropriate resources • Increasingly, data is lost as it is not • Findable • Accessible • Interoperable • Reusable (The FAIR principles) rd-alliance.org
Who is affected by this WG? • Data creators and (re)users in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences • People who recommend or endorse the use of data standards and databases in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences rd-alliance.org
Describe the Working Group structure (how many members, diversity of experience, geographies, etc.) • >50 members from around the world • Standard/database developers • Funders • Journal data editors • Researchers • Data managers/librarians rd-alliance.org
Adoption & Implementation Institutional RDM services, incl.: Societies and organisations, incl.: Cross-links and data exchange, incl.: Projects/programmes, incl.: BioTools Standard developing groups, incl.: Journals/publishers/Funders, incl.: rd-alliance.org
Feedback and comments • Output report available now • Help us define and refine our guidelines for linking data policies, databases and data standards in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences • Contacts: rda-biosharing-wg@rda-groups.org biosharingwg@force11.org rd-alliance.org