A 15 minute presentation giving an introduction to FAIRsharing, an ELIXIR Interoperability Platform resource of curated and linked information on standards, databases and policies.

1. www.elixir-europe.org
ELIXIR All Hands 2017, 21-23 March, Rome, Italy
FAIRsharing: linking standards,
repositories and policies
Peter McQuilton
RDA 10th Plenary, September 2017, Montrèal, Canada

2. A web-based, curated, and searchable portal that monitors the
development and evolution of data and metadata standards,
across all disciplines, inter-related to databases/repositories and
data policies
FAIRsharing has grown organically from BioSharing.org, which
covered standards, databases and policies in the life,
environmental and biomedical sciences.
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A resource of the ELIXIR Interoperability
Platform

3. Content standards
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Models/Formats = Conceptual
model, conceptual schema,
exchange formats
Terminologies = Controlled
vocabularies, taxonomies,
thesauri, ontologies etc.
Guidelines = Minimum
information reporting
requirements, checklists
Mapping a complex and evolving
landscape

4. Content standards
Data policies by
funders, journals
and other
organizations
Databases, tools
and services
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Mapping a complex and evolving
landscape

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Paper in preparation,
preliminary information as of July 2017
Ready for use, implementation, or recommendation
In development
Status uncertain
Deprecated as subsumed or superseded
All records are manually curated
in-house and verified by the
community behind each resource
Assigning status indicators

6. Helping users
make the right
decision
My funder’s data policy recommends the use of
established standards, but which are widely endorsed
and applicable to my clinical disease data?
We need a standard for sharing
cell line data, what’s out there and
who should we talk to?
I have some old rice genomic data in
format X, which is now deprecated; what
format has replaced X?
What databases are heavily
supported in the community that we
should recommend to our authors?

11. Finding and Accessing the data

12. Collections group
together one or more
types of resource by
domain, project or
organization.
Recommendations are a
core-set of resources that
are selected and
recommended by a funder
or journal data policy.
Grouping the data

14. Data Policy
Visualizing the relationships between
data…

15. Data Policy
List of their
recommended
databases and standards
…to inform and educate on existing and
new resources

18. Standard developing groups, incl:Journal, publishers, incl:
Cross-links, data exchange, incl:
Societies and organisations,
incl:
Institutional RDM services, incl:
Projects, programmes:
Working with and for the community

19. RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG
Force11/RDA FAIRsharing
WG COMING SOON!

20. The FAIRsharing team
Go to
https://fairsharing.org/new/ to
add your standard, data
repository or policy to
FAIRsharing
Our Advisory Board