BioSharing

Great initiative! I hope other BMC journals will j...

2011-08-02T00:30:43.043-07:00

Great initiative! I hope other BMC journals will join soon! (Already brought it up with the JChemInf.)

Last year, the Data Conservancy (one of the US NSF...

2011-06-10T07:58:03.322-07:00

Last year, the Data Conservancy (one of the US NSF Data Net projects) sponsored a life sciences workshop in which a straw-man, over-arching data policy was developed. The workshop was attended by representatives from academia, government and the private sector and included life sciences, computer sciences and information sciences disciplines. The following are the key issues that were developed.

1. Scientists have the right to first use of data they produce
2. Data providers should have a choice of licenses
3. Repositories must provide access to data they hold
4. Scientists must receive attribution when data they produce are used
5. Open formats should be used
6. Existing standards should be used where available
7. Tools and formats used should be free and open-source
8. Data should be collected with interoperability in mind
9. Some data are valuable and should be preserved over time

The above can be embellished to create more granular data policies that meet the needs of the Life Sciences sub-domains.

Many of these issues intersect with the minimum policies listed in this blog post. I would like to use biosharing as a platform for developing a minimum data sharing policy for the life sciences and encourage feedback from the community concerning the adequacy of these points.

Here is another great tongue-in-cheek blog post - ...

2010-07-20T18:40:26.497-07:00

Here is another great tongue-in-cheek blog post - this time framed as a response to the new NSF mandate for a 2 page data sharing plan. Again, highlights the things we should be doing as a community admirably!

http://ivory.idyll.org/blog/may-10/data-management

Well done "Daily Life in an Ivory Basement" Blog!

Thanks for hosting this meeting as a SIG at ISMB. ...

2010-07-10T08:36:44.798-07:00

Thanks for hosting this meeting as a SIG at ISMB. It was a wonderful meeting that was informative and engaging.

Susan Gregurick
DOE

Once we've chewed on that list for a bit, perh...

2010-05-26T08:41:53.466-07:00

Once we've chewed on that list for a bit, perhaps we could put this forward as the 'Biosharing Pledge'? Could perhaps make a little icon for people to put on their lab pages that links back to the above post (or some version of it) online -- like the 'Built with X'-style things one often encounters.

These people need to be talking to DataCite, as pa...

2010-05-19T03:44:58.053-07:00

These people need to be talking to DataCite, as parts of the UC system apparently already are (along with Purdue, and a host of nations from around the world)... http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/23055

Can't find a contact person on their pages -- under construction :(

That URL seems to be out of date. Try http://www.r...

2009-10-01T05:57:08.106-07:00

That URL seems to be out of date. Try http://www.rin.ac.uk/our-work/communicating-and-disseminating-research/communicating-knowledge-how-and-why-researchers-pu

:)

Couldn't find the word 'funding' anywhere ;) Peo...

2009-04-30T13:59:00.000-07:00

Couldn't find the word 'funding' anywhere ;)

People from outside of the community often assume this stuff will just get done -- that the job is 'in hand' somehow. At least things seem to be changing a bit in that regard, both as people become aware exactly how thin is the support for this vital activity, and as funders move to make supporting it easier. For MI projects curators are hugely important (in addition to their more normal value adding).

(Obviously I was being a little facetious above btw -- I know people don't go to these things to give talks about money.)