Mapping the landscape of interoperability standards:

inform and educate

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhDConsultant,

Founding Academic EditorAssociate Director,

Principal Investigator

Inter-UnionWorkshopon21stCenturyScientificandTechnicalDataDevelopingaroadmapfordataintegrationConvenedbytheICSU-CODATACommissiononDataStandardsforScience,Paris,19-21June2017

Aweb-based,curatedandsearchableportalthat monitorsthedevelopment and

evolution ofstandards,theiruse indatabases andtheadoptionofbothindata

policies,toinform andeducate theusercommunity

part of FAIR .org

Formats Terminologies Guidelines

Initial focus on metadata (or content) standards

Formats Terminologies Guidelines

Enhance their findability

220+

115+

548+

source sourcesource

miame

MIRIAMMIQASMIX

MIGEN

ARRIVEMIAPE

MIASE

MIQE

MISFISHIE….

REMARK

CONSORT

SRAxml

SOFT FASTA

DICOM

MzMLSBRML

SEDML…

GELML

ISA

CML

MITAB

AAOCHEBIOBI

PATO ENVOMOD

BTOIDO…

TEDDY

PRO

XAO

DO

VO

882 -> ~1000

Formats Terminologies Guidelines

Initial focus on life/biomedical sciences, but not limited to

220+

115+

548+

source sourcesource

miame

MIRIAMMIQASMIX

MIGEN

ARRIVEMIAPE

MIASE

MIQE

MISFISHIE….

REMARK

CONSORT

SRAxml

SOFT FASTA

DICOM

MzMLSBRML

SEDML…

GELML

ISA

CML

MITAB

AAOCHEBIOBI

PATO ENVOMOD

BTOIDO…

TEDDY

PRO

XAO

DO

VO

882 -> ~1000

de jurestandard

organizations

de facto

grass-rootsgroups

Databases/data repositories

Metadata standards

Formats Terminologies Guidelines

Readyforuse,implementation,orrecommendation

Indevelopment

Statusuncertain

Deprecatedassubsumedorsuperseded

Allrecordsaremanuallycurated

in-houseandverifiedbythe

communitybehindeachresource

Interlink standards among themselves and with repositories, as relevant, and use ‘indicators’ to describe their status

Data policies by funders, journals and other organizations

Help users to understand if and how standards are used

Formats

Guideline

Formats

Terminology

Promote adoption e.g. by educating policy makers

Technologically-delineated views of the world

Biologically-delineated views of the world

Generic features (‘common core’)- description of source biomaterial- experimental design components

Arrays

Scanning Arrays &Scanning

Columns

GelsMS MS

FTIR

NMR

Columns

transcriptomics proteomics metabolomics

plant biologyepidemiology microbiology

Highlight the fragmentation of standards

Arrays

Scanning Arrays &Scanning

Columns

GelsMS MS

FTIR

NMR

Columns

transcriptomics proteomics metabolomics

plant biologyepidemiology microbiology

Proteomics-based gut microbiota profiling

Proteomics and metabolomics based gut microbiota profiling

Need for modularization to combine and validate

Standard developing groups:Journal, publishers:

Cross-links, data exchange:

Societies and organisations: Institutional RDM services:

Projects, programmes:

part of FAIR .org

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2015

2016

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3795816.v2

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.4055496.v1

https://datascience.nih.gov/sites/default/files/bd2k/docs/ExecSumm_CBDMSworkshopFEB2015.pdf