This document discusses mapping the landscape of interoperability standards to inform and educate users. It proposes a web-based, curated portal to monitor the development, evolution, and adoption of over 220 metadata standards, 115 terminologies, and 548 guidelines across life and biomedical sciences. The portal would link related standards and indicate their status. This would help users understand how standards are used in databases and policies, promote adoption, and highlight the fragmentation of standards across domains. The goal is to enhance findability and encourage modularization of standards to enable data integration.

1. Mapping the landscape of
interoperability standards:
inform and educate
Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhD
Consultant,
Founding Academic Editor
Associate Director,
Principal Investigator
Inter-Union Workshop on 21st Century Scientific and Technical Data Developing a roadmap for data integration
Convened by the ICSU-CODATA Commission on Data Standards for Science, Paris, 19-21 June 2017

2. A web-based, curated and searchable portal that monitors the development and
evolution of standards, their use in databases and the adoption of both in data
policies, to inform and educate the user community
part of FAIR .org

3. Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Initial focus on metadata (or content) standards

4. Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Enhance their findability
220+
115+
548+
source source
source
miame
MIRIAM
MIQAS
MIX
MIGEN
ARRIVE
MIAPE
MIASE
MIQE
MISFISHIE….
REMARK
CONSORT
SRAxml
SOFT FASTA
DICOM
MzML
SBRML
SEDML…
GELML
ISA
CML
MITAB
AAO
CHEBIOBI
PATO ENVO
MOD
BTO
IDO…
TEDDY
PRO
XAO
DO
VO
882 -> ~1000

5. Formats Terminologies Guidelines
Initial focus on life/biomedical sciences, but not limited to
220+
115+
548+
source source
source
miame
MIRIAM
MIQAS
MIX
MIGEN
ARRIVE
MIAPE
MIASE
MIQE
MISFISHIE….
REMARK
CONSORT
SRAxml
SOFT FASTA
DICOM
MzML
SBRML
SEDML…
GELML
ISA
CML
MITAB
AAO
CHEBIOBI
PATO ENVO
MOD
BTO
IDO…
TEDDY
PRO
XAO
DO
VO
882 -> ~1000
de jure
standard
organizations
de facto
grass-roots
groups

7. Databases/data
repositories
Metadata standards
Formats Terminologies Guidelines
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Deprecated as subsumed or superseded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
Interlink standards among themselves and with repositories,
as relevant, and use ‘indicators’ to describe their status
Data policies by
funders, journals and
other organizations

8. Help users to understand if and how standards are used
Formats
Guideline
Formats
Terminology

9. Promote adoption e.g. by educating policy makers

10. 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
Gels
MS MS
FTIR
NMR
Columns
transcriptomics
proteomics
metabolomics
plant biology
epidemiology
microbiology
Highlight the fragmentation of standards

11. Arrays
Scanning Arrays &
Scanning
Columns
Gels
MS MS
FTIR
NMR
Columns
transcriptomics
proteomics
metabolomics
plant biology
epidemiology
microbiology
Proteomics-based gut microbiota profiling
Proteomics and metabolomics based gut
microbiota profiling
Need for modularization to combine and validate

12. Standard developing groups:Journal, publishers:
Cross-links, data exchange:
Societies and organisations: Institutional RDM services:
Projects, programmes:
part of FAIR .org

13. 2013
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