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