A common topics vocabulary for life science

resources

Content

Mapping the landscape of community –developed standards, databases and data policies

in the life sciences, broadly covering biological, natural an biomedical sciences

A web-based, curated and searchable portal works to ensure the standards and databases

are registered, informative and discoverable and accessible, monitoring the development

and evolution of standards, their use in databases and the adoption of both in data policies.

Over 500 Over 600

Target and User community

Researchers, developers and curators lack support and guidance on how to best navigate and select

content standards, understand their maturity, or find databases that implement them;

Funders, journals and librarians do not have enough information to make informed decisions on which

content standards or database to recommended in policies, or funded or implemented

Implementation - vocabulary

• How is the vocabulary used• E.g. menus on web page, for searches, facets for browsing, for

annotation (e.g. exposed via widgets)

• Annotation Sources:• 4 axis: {material,process,quality,information} • NIF,OBI,CL,GO,IAO,EDAM• Biosharing specific terminology to meet Biodbcore annotation

requirements

• Core functionalities:• search and filtering• submissions forms to add new records• “claim” functionality of existing records• person’s profile (as maintainer of records) associated to the ORCID profile (for

credit, as incentive)• visualization and views of content

Team and Sustainability

Operational Team

Advisory Board and Working Group - core members and adopters

…and currently hiring!