3. Mapping the landscape of ‘standards’ in the life, environmental and
biomedical sciences
Mapping the landscape of ‘standards’ in the life, environmental and
biomedical sciences
1,400 records and growing
What is BioSharing?
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 the user community.
4. Mapping the landscape of ‘standards’ in the life, environmental and
biomedical sciences
Mapping the landscape of ‘standards’ in the life, environmental and
biomedical sciences
What is BioSharing?
Launched in 2011, as an evolution of the MIBBI portal (2008-2011)
Manually curated
Community driven
Growing userbase and visibility
Promoting the FAIR principles
1,400 records and growing
8. de jure de facto
grass-roots
groups
standard
organizations
Nanotechnology Working Group
Community mobilisation to develop
content standards
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
21. The International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB), 22-28 August,2008 Susanna-Assunta
Sansone www.ebi.ac.uk/net-project
Search, filter, and refine using our faceted
search
Search, filter, and refine using our faceted
search
26. BioSharing – what we do
Inform – what’s out there, which databases use
which standards. Map the landscape.
Educate– what databases are recommended by your
funder, or journal of choice, which standards should
you be using, which standards and databases should
you recommend? Explore the landscape.
28. Use us!
• Add/link your standard to BioSharing
• Add/link your database
• Use us to inform your data policy (and add/link
your policy)
• Make a collection or recommendation for your
group/society
https://biosharing.org
@biosharing