Overview of Resource Representation Coordination efforts to coordinate the representation of resources from Biositemaps, eagle-i, and the Neuroscience Information Framework.

1. A Linked Open Data Approach to
Interoperability between
Biomedical Resource Inventories
Trish Whetzel, Ph.D.
Presenting on behalf of the Resource Coordination Group
(Anita Bandrowski, Carlo Torniai, Charles Borromeo, Melissa
Haendel, Jessica Tenenbaum)

2. Outline
• Resourceome
• Resource Inventory Projects
• Interoperability
• Future Plans

3. Accessing the “Resourceome”

4. • Machine-readable
resource associated with
a website
• Resources are
described in terms of an
information model
• Supported by the
Biomedical Resource
Ontology
• Can be discovered by
search engines such as
Google
Biositemaps
www.biositemaps.org

5. Biositemaps
National Centers for
Biomedical Computing
Clinical and Translational
Science Awards
www.ncbcs.org www.ctsaweb.org

6. Resource Discovery System:
A catalog of > 1,400 biomedical resources
A set of tools and services for easy sharing of and linking of resources to articles, websites etc.
The tools ingest NIF resources.

7. Neuroscience Information Framework
• A portal for finding and
using resources
• Resources are
described in terms of an
information model
• Supported by the
NIFSTD ontology
• Provides simultaneous
search of >30M database
records, organized by
www.neuinfo.org category

8. Neuroscience Information Framework
MT
WY
ID
WA
OR
NV
UT
CA
AZ
ND
SD
NE
CO
NM
TX
KS
OK
MO
AR
LA
MN
IA
WI
IL
IN
KY
TN
WV VA
MS AL GA
SC
FL
MI
NY
PA
NJ
DE
ME
CT
MD
RI
MA
VT
NH
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NC
PR
Supported by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience

9. NIF Registry:
A catalog of > 3,500 human curated databases, tools and materials
A set of tools and services for easy sharing of and linking of data to articles, websites etc.
The tools ingest Biositemaps and two other common resource description formats

10. eagle-i
• Make scientific research
resources more visible via a
federated network
• Resources are described in
terms of an information
model
• Supported by the eagle-i
ontology
• Reducing time-consuming
and expensive duplication
of resources
www.eagle-i.org

11. eagle-i
Supported by National Center for Research Resources

12. Google meets
Ontology-guided
search
eagle-i’s current
holdings
eagle-i Repositories:
The same search on
a NIF tab
A catalog of > 70,000 human curated invisible research resources
A set of tools and services for easy sharing of and linking of resources to articles, websites etc.
The tools ingest Biositemaps and NIF resources.

13. Outline
• Resourceome
• Resource Inventory Projects
• Interoperability
• Future Plans

14. Resource Ontology
eagle-i
NIF
BRO

15. Resource Information Model
• Resource name
• Resource description
• URL
• Resource type
• Availability of documentation
• Contact person
• Contact person email
• Organization

16. Diverse use cases require
diverse ontologies and data sources
Public repositories
and
resources
Community ontologies
and taxonomies
Lab resources
inventoried by
eagle-i
eagle-i ontologies
Institutional core
facility
Biositemaps
BRO ontology NIFStd ontologies
repository repository repository

17. Future Plans
Public repositories
and
resources
Community ontologies
and taxonomies
repository
Lab resources
inventoried by
eagle-i
Institutional core
facility
Biositemaps

18. Acknowledgements
• Mark Musen
• Mike Becich
• Jessica Tenenbaum
• Fahim Imam
• Maryann Martone
• Chris Shaffer
• Daniela Bourges
• Biositemaps Consortium
• eagle-i Consortium
• NIF Consortium