A 20 minute talk on the BioSharing portal, focusing on our work to link journal and funder data policies to the databases and data standards that they recommend/endorse. This was presented as part of a session on data policies in the life sciences with representation from JISC and Springer Nature.

1. 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

2. • 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

3. 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

4. Content standards
Data policies by
funders, journals and
other organizations
Databases, tools
and services
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Complex and evolving landscape

5. 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?

14. Data Policy
List of their
recommended
databases and standards

15. Data Policy
Visualizing the relationships between
data…

16. Data Policy
…to inform and educate on existing and
new resources

17. 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

18. • 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

19. RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG

20. Acknowledgements