This document summarizes a presentation about BioSharing, a resource within ELIXIR that monitors the development of standards, databases, and data policies. BioSharing aims to inform and educate users by providing a curated, searchable portal mapping the complex and evolving landscape of standards, databases, and data policies. It indicates the status of resources and tracks their evolution over time to help users make informed decisions.

1. www.elixir-europe.org
ELIXIR All Hands 2017, 21-23 March, Rome, Italy
BioSharing: standards, databases, policies
Susanna-Assunta Sansone
@biosharing

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

4. Complex and evolving landscape
Data policies by
funders, journals and
other organizations
Databases, tools
and services
Content standards
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
By grass-roots
groups, e.g.:
By standard
organizations, e.g.:

5. Content standards
Data policies by
funders, journals and
other organizations
Databases, tools
and services
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Since 2011 BioSharing works to map this landscape
MIAME
MIRIAM
MIQASMIX
MIGEN
ARRIVE
MIAPE
MIASE
MIQE
MISFISHIE….
REMARK
CONSORT
SRAxml
SOFT FASTA
DICOM
MzML
SBRML
SEDML…
GELML
ISA
CML
MITAB
AAO
CHEBIOBI
PATO ENVO
MOD
BTO
IDO…
TEDDY
PRO
XAO
DO
VO
MIAPPE
Sample-Tab

6. Helping users make
the right decision

8. Not just quantity but quality:
rich, curated and community
vetted descriptions

9. 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Deprecated as subsumed or superseded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

10. Tracking evolution, e.g.:

11. Working with/for the community and our ‘adopters’, e.g.:
Standard developing groups:Journal, publishers:
Cross-links, data exchange:
Societies and organisations: Institutional RDM services:
Projects, programmes:
533
responders

12. Progressively cross-linking with other ELIXIR resources
Standard developing groups:Journal, publishers:
Cross-links, data exchange:
Societies and organisations: Institutional RDM services:
Projects, programmes:

13. Visualizing relations, e.g.:
Data Policy
List of their
recommended
databases and standards

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

15. Acknowledgements