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<font face="Verdana">Dear colleagues,<br>
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We would like to ask you 10 questions to assess your needs for a
registry of standards in the life, environmental, and biomedical
sciences.<br>
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href="https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BioSharing">https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BioSharing</a><br>
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If widely used, community-driven standards can help scientists to
broadly represent, annotate and share digital information in ways
that enable their re-use, reproducibility and further exploration.
Did you know there are >600 standards in the life,
environmental and biomedical sciences? We know that many
researchers, developers, curators, funders, journal editors, and
librarians lack the support and guidance on how to best select
standards and understand their maturity, or to find tools and
databases that implement them.<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.biosharing.org">BioSharing</a>
is a curated, web-based, searchable portal of standards. Since
2011, Biosharing has ensured standards are registered and
discoverable, and has monitored their maturity and evolution, and
in doing so has helped provide enough information for our growing
user base to make informed decisions. This is your time to drive
enhancements to BioSharing, under several research and
infrastructure programmes. Your feedback will:<br>
1. Provide a review of BioSharing content and functionality
as the ELIXIR Standards Registry, under the European <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k">ELIXIR
EXCELERATE</a> project<br>
2. Define BioSharing activities under the US NIH Big Data to
Knowledge (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k">BD2K</a>) initiative,
specifically to:<br>
- Work with the NIH Associate Director for Data Science (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://datascience.nih.gov/adds">ADDS</a>)
office to ensure BioSharing is formally embedded in the
complementary activities of the BD2K Standards Coordinating Centre<br>
- Inform the contribution to the selection and usage of
standards in the BD2K Data Discovery Index (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://biocaddie.org">bioCADDIE</a>)
project, and the Centre for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval
(<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.metadatacenter.org">CEDAR</a>)<br>
3. Contribute to the BioSharing Working Group, operating
jointly under the Force 11/Research Data Alliance (RDA) <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://rd-alliance.org/group/biosharing-registry-connecting-data-policies-standards-databases-life-sciences.html">working
groups</a>.<br>
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Thank-you for participating in the survey. Your feedback is really
important to us.<br>
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Yours sincerely,<br>
<br>
Peter McQuilton<br>
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(on behalf of Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Pascale Gaudet, the
BioSharing team and members of its Advisory Board, ELIXIR and BD2K
projects who have helped us in shaping this survey).<br>
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><font face="Verdana"> Yours
sincerely,<br>
<br>
Peter McQuilton<br>
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<p>Peter McQuilton, PhD</p>
<p>BioSharing Content Lead<br>
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<p><a href="https://biosharing.org">BioSharing.org</a></p>
<p>Oxford e-Research Centre</p>
<p>University of Oxford</p>
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