Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: To the Editor — Community-developed standards, such as those for the identification 1 , citation 2 and reporting 3 of data, underpin reproducible and reusable research, aid scholarly publishing, and drive both the discovery and the evolution of scientific practice. The number of these standardization efforts, driven by large organizations or at the grassroots level, has been on the rise since the early 2000s. Thousands of community-developed standards are available (across all disciplines), many of which have been created and/or implemented by several thousand data repositories. Nevertheless, their uptake by the research community has been slow and uneven mainly because investigators lack incentives to follow and adopt standards. Uptake is further compromised if standards are not promptly implemented by databases, repositories and other research tools, or endorsed by infrastructures. Furthermore, the fragmentation of community efforts results in the development of arbitrarily different, incompatible standards. In turn, this leads to standards becoming rapidly obsolete in fast-evolving research areas.
Source: Nature Biotechnology
Authors: the FAIRsharing Community, Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Peter McQuilton, Philippe Rocca-Serra, Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Massimiliano Izzo, Allyson L. Lister, Milo Thurston
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $12,690
Awards: G1592163837, CALIFORNIA: Cloud-agnostic Architecture to Locate Indexed FAIR Objects and safely Reuse them in New Integrated Analyses, Omics Data Standards: synergy and implementations, G3339699563, Establishing common standards and curation practices: towards real world biosharing., BioCADDIE: Biomedical and healthCAre Data Discovery and Indexing Engine center, University of Maryland NIH Data Commons Facilitation Center, Delivering ELIXIR-UK, The FAIRsharing service: supporting the research life-cycle, Delivering ELIXIR-UK, BioSharing and the National Bioscience Database Center - joining forces to better serve the research community worldwide, COpenPlantOmics (COPO): a Collaborative Bioinformatics Plant Science Platform, ISA-InterMine: accelerating and rewarding data sharing, Development and Implementation Plan for Community Supported FAIR Guidelines and Metrics, G7046084295, Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval <CEDAR> - Overall
OpenAlex ID: W2934450419