RDA Plenary 3 (Dublin) WG proposal from Susanna Sansone (Biosharing), Simon Hodson (CO-DATA) and Rebecca Lawrence (F1000Research) on connecting data standards, policies and repositories in the life sciences.

1. 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

2. 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.

3. Growing number of reporting standards in life sciences
+ 130
Estimated
+ 150
Source:MIBBI,
EQUATOR
+ 303
Source:BioPortal miame
MIAPA
MIRIAM
MIQAS
MIX
MIGEN
CIMR
MIAPE
MIASE
MIQE
MISFISHIE….
REMARK
CONSORT
MAGE-Tab
GCDML
SRAxml
SOFT
FASTA
DICOM
MzML
SBRML
SEDML…
GELML
ISA-Tab
CML
MITAB
AAO
CHEBI
OBI
PATO ENVO
MOD
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

4. But how much do we know about these standards

5. Increasing number of journals with differing data policies:
Most major funders also now have open data policies but they all differ:

6. All Science
WG: Global Service of Trusted Repositories and Services
Life Sciences

7. * That has an MoU with
*

8. 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