This document discusses Bioschemas, which uses Schema.org vocabulary to add semantic markup to life sciences web pages in order to improve findability and interoperability of data. It notes that Bioschemas defines types and minimum properties for life sciences data, links to domain ontologies, and has a community-driven process for developing specifications. The document outlines the size of the Bioschemas community and number of specifications, deployments, and pages marked up, and proposes initiatives for increasing adoption, staff exchange, and providing training.
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Bioschemas findability and interoperability
1. Alasdair J G Gray
Heriot-Watt University/ELIXIR-UK
Bioschemas Community
http://bioschemas.org/people/
Bioschemas:
Enabling Findability & Interoperability
2. Schema.org: Semantic markup for web pages
http://bioschemas.org
Picture: Carole Goble, Turing Lecture 2018
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3. Bioschemas
• Schema.org for life sciences
–Introduce life sciences types
• Use case driven
–Finding data
–Presenting search results
–Metadata exchange
• Minimum properties – 6
• Link to domain ontologies
Specification on top of schema.org
Layer of constrains + documentation +
extensions Specification
Data model
Minimum information
Controlled vocabularies
Cardinality
Documentation
Examples
New (properties | types)
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9. Prototype: MarRef BioSamples
Without an API
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https://github.com/EBIBioSamples/bioschemas_marref_demo/blob/master/Summary.md
IMDb page for True Grit: looks like normal web page
Markup in the page makes it interpretable by machines
Allows content consumers to develop smart apps
T B-L believes this is the Semantic Web
40% of web pages contain markup
Currently no rich search results
Would like something more like this
Thriving grassroots community
Over 200 people
18 Events
15 Profiles
30 Live deployments
6 Million+ pages
Define use case
Metadata crosswalk and mapping to schema.org
Metadata providers
Metadata registries
Standards defining metadata
Bioschemas specification
Define minimum properties based on “finding” use cases
Define cardinality and suggested controlled vocabularies
Test with existing entries
Adoption by data repositories and registries
Applications
Similar work in
FAIRsharing
Identifiers.org
Biosamples
Bioschemas markup added to MarRef pages
Markup crawled using BuzzBang
Data included as a BioSample Curation
Depicted by the External Links