A 20 minute presentation given at the 9th RDA Plenary in Barcelona as part of the BioSharing WG - ELIXIR Bridging Force IG session. This presentation covers the basics of what BioSharing is, who it's for, and how it captures and connects information on data standards, databases and data policies from the life, biomedical and environmental sciences.

1. www.elixir-europe.org
ELIXIR All Hands 2017, 21-23 March, Rome, Italy
BioSharing: standards, databases and
policies in the life sciences
Peter McQuilton
RDA 9th Plenary, 2017, 5-7 April, Barcelona, Spain

2. BioSharing: a resource of the ELIXIR Interoperability Platform
• 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. Mapping a 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
Mapping a complex and evolving
landscape

5. Mapping a complex and evolving
landscape

6. 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?

11. 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Deprecated as subsumed or superseded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

15. Finding and Accessing the data

16. Collections group
together one or more
types of resource by
domain, project or
organization.
Recommendations are a
core-set of resources that
are selected and
recommended by a funder
or journal data policy.
Grouping the data

18. Data Policy
Visualizing the relationships between
data…

19. Data Policy
List of their
recommended
databases and standards
…to inform and educate on existing
and new resources

20. Standard developing groups
.:
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

21. • 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

22. RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG

23. Acknowledgements
Go to
https://www.biosharing.org/new
to add or claim your database or
standard