FAIRsharing – manually curated
metadata on standards,
repositories and data policies
Peter McQuilton, PhD
ORCiD: 0000-0003-2687-1982 | Twitter: @Drosophilic
RDA Plenary 14, Espoo, Finland – Friday 25th October, 2019 - Breakout 7
Slides: 10 mins
https://datareadiness.eng.ox.ac.uk

Metadata standards and identifiers
Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
Conceptual model,
conceptual schema,
exchange formats
Controlled vocabularies,
thesauri, ontologies
Minimum information reporting
requirements, checklists
Unambiguous, persistent
and context-independent
identifier schema

Over a thousand standards
390+
162+
729+
~1300
13
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
EC number
URL
PURLLSID
HandleORCID
RRID
InChI
IVOA ID
DOI
standard
organizations
grass-root
groups
Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
for metadata and identifiers

Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
REPOSITORIES,
databases and
knowledgebases
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
for metadata and identifiers
Connecting standards to repositories

Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
REPOSITORIES,
databases and
knowledgebases
DATA POLICIES
by journals, funders,
and other organizations
Supporting the re-use of data
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
for metadata and identifiers
Identify and
recommend

Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
REPOSITORIES,
databases and
knowledgebases
DATA POLICIES
by journals, funders,
and other organizations
Helping people choose
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
for metadata and identifiers
Identify and
recommend

Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
REPOSITORIES,
databases and
knowledgebases
DATA POLICIES
by journals, funders,
and other organizations
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
for metadata and identifiers
informative and educational resource
Curated inter-linked
descriptions

Formats Terminologies Guidelines Identifiers
ID
REPOSITORIES,
databases and
knowledgebases
DATA POLICIES
by journals, funders,
and other organizations
COMMUNITY STANDARDS
for metadata and identifiers
informative and educational resource
Curated inter-linked
descriptions
All records are manually curated
in-house, verified and claimed by the
community behind each resource
Ready for use, implementation, or recommendation
In development
Status uncertain
Deprecated as subsumed or superseded

We guide consumers to discover, select
and use these resources with confidence
We help producers to make their resources
more visible, more widely adopted and
cited

Researchers in academia,
industry, government
Developers and curators of
resources
Journal publishers or
organizations with data policy
Research data facilitators,
librarians, trainers
Learned societies, unions
and associations
Funders and data policy
makers
A flagship output (and a
WG) of the:
Recommended by
funders, e.g.:
Core part of implementation
networks in:

40+ metadata fields:
- Free text
- Identifier fields
- Ontology fields:
- SRAO and DRAO
application ontologies
- NCBI Taxon
- Relationship links between
resources
- Metrics for community
endorsement (e.g. journal
policy recommendations)
- Support and contact
information
- Curated with maintainers of
each resource
- Citable DOI
Manual curation and linking of metadata

Mapping the landscape – collections

FAIRsharing metadata –
powering others
• Descriptions of community standards
(metrics, identifiers, terminologies,
ontologies, reporting guidelines, models,
formats, schemas), repositories
(including knowledge bases), and
policies (from funders, journals and other
entities) and the relationships between
these resources
• Manually curated descriptions defined
with and vetted by the resource
maintainers themselves
• Citable/resolvable DOIs for all records
• Open and FAIR data, accessible by API
or via web interface
Landscape of standards and
repositories used by the
GO FAIR Chemistry IN

FAIRsharing metadata –
powering the DSW
Semantically-enabled drop-down
menus and auto-complete
functions (using data from
FAIRsharing)

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