Susanna-Assunta Sansone
Associate Director, PI
Rebecca Lawrence,
Managing Director
Simon Hodson,
Executive Director
Proposed RDA WG on Connecting data policies, standards and databases in the life sciences
PROPOSED WG: Connecting data policies, standards and databases in the life sciences
Create a curated and cross-searchable registry of repositories, standards, and journal & funder policies.
Help stakeholders to make informed decisions:• Journals on repositories accredited to the level required by their
guidelines, but also meet the necessary standards.• Researchers on which journals meet their funder requirements
and which repositories meet which journal standards.• Repositories on the requirements they need to meet to ensure
researchers can use them to meet their funder policies and the policies of the journals they wish to publish in.
• Funders on which journals and repositories meet their policies.
Growing number of reporting standards in life sciences
+ 130
Estimated
+ 150
Source: MIBBI, EQ
UATO
R
+ 303
Source: BioPortal
miameMIAPA
MIRIAMMIQASMIX
MIGEN
CIMRMIAPE
MIASE
MIQE
MISFISHIE….
REMARK
CONSORT
MAGE-TabGCDML
SRAxmlSOFT FASTA
DICOM
MzMLSBRML
SEDML…
GELML
ISA-Tab
CML
MITAB
AAOCHEBI
OBI
PATO ENVOMOD
BTO
IDO…
TEDDY
PRO
XAO
DO
VO
To track provenance of the information
and ensure richness of data
and experimental metadata
descriptions, to maximize
reusability Databases, annotation,
curation tools
But how much do we know about these standards
Increasing number of journals with differing data policies:
Most major funders also now have open data policies but they all differ:
All ScienceWG: Global Service of Trusted Repositories and Services
Life Sciences
* That has an MoU with
*
Focus on life sciences:• Ensures manageable size of project• Pilot that is then extendable to other areas of science
The plan:• Develop assessment criteria for usability and popularity of
standards• Associate standards to data policies and databases• Assemble journal and funder policies re data storage• Make fully cross-searchable• Thereby help stakeholders make informed decisions
Close interlinking with work of other relevant WGs (e.g. Global Service of Trusted Repositories WG; Metadata Standards Directory WG) to utilise outputs on the repository side will be very important