Microbiome Metadata Standards: Report of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative's Workshop and Follow-On Activities. [PDF]
Microbiome samples are inherently defined by the environment in which they are found. Therefore, data that provide context and enable interpretation of measurements produced from biological samples, often referred to as metadata, are critical.
Vangay P +41 more
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COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards. [PDF]
Efficient response to the pandemic through the mobilization of the larger scientific community is challenged by the limited reusability of the available primary genomic data.
Schriml LM +14 more
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MAMS: matrix and analysis metadata standards to facilitate harmonization and reproducibility of single-cell data. [PDF]
Many datasets are being produced by consortia that seek to characterize healthy and disease tissues at single-cell resolution. While biospecimen and experimental information is often captured, detailed metadata standards related to data matrices and ...
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Building a Disciplinary Metadata Standards Directory
The Research Data Alliance (RDA) Metadata Standards Directory Working Group (MSDWG) is building a directory of descriptive, discipline-specific metadata standards.
Alexander Ball +5 more
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Mapping ISO 19115-1 geographic metadata standards to CodeMeta. [PDF]
The CodeMeta Project recently proposed a vocabulary for software metadata. ISO Technical Committee 211 has published a set of metadata standards for geographic data and many kinds of related resources, including software.
Habermann T.
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FAIR Metadata Standards for Low Carbon Energy Research—A Review of Practices and How to Advance
The principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) have been put forward to guide optimal sharing of data. The potential for industrial and social innovation is vast.
August Wierling +32 more
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FAANG, establishing metadata standards, validation and best practices for the farmed and companion animal community. [PDF]
Summary The Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes (FAANG) project aims, through a coordinated international effort, to provide high quality functional annotation of animal genomes with an initial focus on farmed and companion animals. A key goal of the
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Modeling domain metadata beyond metadata standards [PDF]
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) project to detect gravitational waves represents a complex, distributed scientific endeavor posing specific challenges for reproducibility and data management.
Qin, Jian
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BioSharing: curated and crowd-sourced metadata standards, databases and data policies in the life sciences. [PDF]
BioSharing (http://www.biosharing.org) is a manually curated, searchable portal of three linked registries. These resources cover standards (terminologies, formats and models, and reporting guidelines), databases, and data policies in the life sciences ...
McQuilton P +6 more
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Towards community-driven metadata standards for light microscopy: tiered specifications extending the OME model. [PDF]
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