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THOR Partner Services
Year 1 Workshop, Amsterdam
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Schedule
 EBI - Florian Graef
 PANGAEA – Markus Stocker
 CERN – Robin Dasler
 DataCite - Laura Rueda
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Mission
 Enable seamless navigation across research space
 by:
 Embedding PID services in specific research contexts
 to:
 Make them easily discoverable and usable by researchers
 enabling
 Clear credit and provenance for research objects
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Where WP3 fits in THOR
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Task timelines
M1 M12 M30
T3.1
M4
T3.2
M19 M25M10
T3.3
M29M13
T3.4
 Task 3.1 Integration of ORCIDs into data submission services
 Task 3.2. Dataset claiming services and workflows
 Task 3.3 Cross-linking of identifier systems
 Task 3.4 Data citation services
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15/09/15
The EBI-ORCID Hub
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Genes, genomes & variation
RNA Central
Array
Express
Expression Atlas
Metabolights
PRIDE
ChEMBL ChEBI
Molecular structures
Protein Data Bank in Europe
Electron Microscopy Data
Bank
European Nucleotide Archive
European Variation Archive
European Genome-Phenome Archive
Gene, protein & metabolite expression
Protein sequences, families
Chemical biology
Reactions, interactions & pathways
IntAct Reactome MetaboLights
Systems
BioModels Enzyme Portal BioSamples
Ensembl
Ensembl Genomes
GWAS Catalog
Metagenomics portal
Europe PMC
Gene Ontology
Experimental Factor
Ontology
Literature & ontologies
InterPro Pfam UniProt
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Institution-Specific Requirements
 EMBL-EBI
 Many submission databases
 Knowledge/Added Value databases
 International delivery and governance structures
 Ecosystem of persistent identifiers
 Central ORCID services with an API
 No duplication of effort
 ORCID integrations with consistent UIs across resources
 Easy maintenance of a single service
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Approach
 EMBL-EBI
 Developed Middleware layer with an integration API library
 Middleware mediates communication
between applications
 Enables EBI databases to incorporate
ORCID iDs in Web Forms
ORCID-EBI Hub
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EBI-ORCID Hub
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API Integration Demonstration
• Available on GitHub: https://github.com/thor-project/ebi
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Early Adoption: Metabolights
Authenitcated ORCIDs added
to submission form and
underlying data record
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Early Adoption: Metabolights
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Early Adoption: Metabolights
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Early Adoption: EMPIAR
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Early Adoption: EMPIAR
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Next Steps
 Closing the loop:
 Pushing metadata to ORCID record
 Claiming systems for previously published data
 Extending the loop
 Integration of data submission with article submission systems
 Sharing ORCID information (e.g. based on claims, back to data
resources)
 Alignment of identifiers (life sciences data identifiers.org; ORCID
and ISNI)
 Enabling data citation
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Impact
 Life Sciences: only the beginning. Social lag, not only from
scientists but database providers
 Key to integrate with other workflows in particular to boost
impact (forthcoming with future tasks …). Expected:
 Datasets claimed to ORCIDs
 ORCIDs used more widely in data space
 Improved crosslinking between literature and data

THOR Workshop - Services EBI

Editor's Notes

  • #10 The slide shows the core resources at the EBI to show the range of data you can access through the EBI.
  • #13 A service with an API that any number of databases at EBI can use to interface with the ORCID registry to verify user identity and populate existing data submission forms with data from their ORCID profile. Special emphasis was put on the simplicity of integrating existing web forms with the API and two databases, Metabolights and EMPIAR have already integrated this into their workflows. EBI are actively engaging with other life science databases (BioStudies, PDBe, ENA, IntAct, PRIDE and ArrayExpress) and expect these to begin using the API over the next months and years, depending on governance structures and production plans.