This document discusses Bioschemas, which aims to enable findability and interoperability of life sciences data on the web. It defines schemas using Schema.org for different types of life sciences data, including datasets and data catalogs. Bioschemas has over 200 members across 35 organizations that have deployed Bioschemas markup. It has ongoing work to increase adoption of Bioschemas across different types of life sciences resources and provide training and events for the community.

1. Alasdair J G Gray
Heriot-Watt University/ELIXIR-UK
Bioschemas Community
http://bioschemas.org/people/
Bioschemas:
Enabling Findability & Interoperability

2. Google Search
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3. Google Search
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4. Google Dataset Search
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https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch
https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-it-easier-discover-datasets/

5. Schema.org: Semantic markup for web pages
http://bioschemas.org
Picture: Carole Goble, Turing Lecture 2018
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6. Schema for Datasets and Catalogs
Schema definitions:
• Dataset: A body of structured
information describing some
topic(s) of interest
http://schema.org/Dataset
– 91 properties
• DataCatalog: A collection of
datasets
http://schema.org/DataCatalog
– 91 properties
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https://schema.org/Dataset

7. Schema for Datasets and Catalogs
Google Profile
• Dataset: 9 basic properties
• DataCatalog: 1 property
• DataDownload: 2 properties
• Many more
Generic types
• Events
• Jobs
• ...
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8. Bioschemas
• Schema.org for life sciences
–Introduce life sciences types
• Use case driven
–Finding data
–Presenting search results
–Metadata exchange
• Minimum properties – 6
• Link to domain ontologies
Specification on top of schema.org
Layer of constrains + documentation +
extensions Specification
Data model
Minimum information
Controlled vocabularies
Cardinality
Documentation
Examples
New (properties | types)
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10. Bioschemas Community

11. 200+
People35PMs
(fundin
g)
18Working
groups
18Events
15Specifications
12Code
repositories
229GitHub
issues
468Community
emails
35Live
deploys
6M+Pages
Bioschemas Community

12. Mapping SpecificationUse cases
Mockup
Adoption
Testing Application
Bioschemas Process
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13. Mapping SpecificationUse cases
Mockup
Adoption
Testing Application
Bioschemas Process
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14. Bioschemas Deployments
http://bioschemas.org/liveDeploys/
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35Live
deploys
6M+Pages

15. TeSS: Bioschemas in action
http://bioschemas.org
• Contact
• Description
• End date
• Event Type
• Host Institution
• Location
• Name
• Start Date
• …
Bioschemas Event:

16. Identifiers.org: Bioschemas DataCatalog in action (future)
ELIXIR All Hands 2018, June 2018, Berlin, Germany
• Description
• Keywords
• Name
• Provider
• URL
Bioschema DataCatalog:
• alternateName
• citation
• dateCreated
• licence
• …

17. Prototype: MarRef → BioSamples
Without an API
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https://github.com/EBIBioSamples/bioschemas_marref_demo/blob/master/Summary.md

18. Exploiting Bioschemas Markup: Tooling
• buzzbang
–Crawl markup
–Search interface
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• GoWeb
–Specification
generation
• Validata
–Validate
markup

19. Bioschemas 2018 and Beyond
• Increase Adoption
–Core Data Resources
–Deposition Databases
–Node Resources
–Community Resources
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• Staff Exchange
Programme
–Travel fund for
Bioschema events
–Staff transfer
• Training and Events
–ECCB Tutorial
–NetTab
–Biohackathon
–SWAT4HCLS Tutorial

20. Acknowledgements
http://bioschemas.org/people/
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Join Bioschemas
bioschemas.org/
howtojoin/