BioSharing: curated and crowd-sourced metadata standards, databases and data policies in the life sciences

• DOI: 10.1093/database/baw075
• Publication Date: 2016-05-17T22:39:40Z
• Authors: Peter McQuilton; Alejandra Gonzale...; Philippe Rocca-Serra; Milo Thurston; Allyson Lister; Eamonn Maguire; Susanna-Assunta S...
• Keywords: Crowd sourcing

BioSharing (http://www.biosharing.org) is a manually curated, searchable portal of three linked registries. These resources cover standards (terminologies, formats and models, reporting guidelines), databases, data policies in the life sciences, broadly encompassing biological, environmental biomedical sciences. Launched 2011 built by same core team as successful MIBBI portal, harnesses community curation to collate cross-reference across sciences from around world. makes these findable accessible (the FAIR principle). Every record designed be interlinked, providing detailed description not only on resource itself, but also its relations with other science infrastructures. Serving variety stakeholders, cultivates growing community, which it offers diverse benefits. It for funding bodies journal publishers navigate metadata landscape biological sciences; an educational librarians information advisors; publicising platform standard database developers/curators; research tool bench computer scientists plan their work. working increasing number journals registries, example linking databases training material tools. Driven international Advisory Board, user-base has grown over 40% (by unique IP address), last year thanks engagement researchers, publishers, librarians, developers stakeholders via several routes, including joint RDA/Force11 group collaboration International Society Biocuration. In this article, we describe BioSharing, particular focus community-led curation.Database URL: https://www.biosharing.org.