Metadata

A minimal metadata set (MNMS) to repurpose nonclinical in vivo data for biomedical research

Although biomedical research is experiencing a data explosion, the accumulation of vast quantities of data alone does not guarantee a primary objective for science: building upon existing knowledge. Data collected that lack appropriate metadata …

Announcing DataCite’s First Public Data File

Today, we are releasing DataCite’s first public data file with metadata for over 52 million DOIs.

Authorship practices must evolve to support collaboration and open science

Journal authorship practices have not sufficiently evolved to reflect the way research is now done. Improvements to support teams, collaboration, and open science are urgently needed.

Project Organization and Management for Genomics

Data Carpentry Genomics workshop lesson to learn how to structure your metadata, organize and document your genomics data and bioinformatics workflow, and access data on the NCBI sequence read archive (SRA) database. Good data organization is the …

SnapShot: Reporting practices for publishing results with human PSCs and tissue stem cells

This checklist is intended to help scientists, reviewers, and editors prepare and assess manuscripts for inclusion of critical details relevant to work with pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) and tissue stem cells (TSCs) with the goal of increasing the …

Ten quick tips for building FAIR workflows

Research data is accumulating rapidly and with it the challenge of fully reproducible science. As a consequence, implementation of high-quality management of scientific data has become a global priority. The FAIR (Findable, Accesible, Interoperable …

The GO FAIR Foundation's FAIR Capacity Building Programme

The GO FAIR Foundation's FAIR Capacity Building Programme provides professional and qualified training for data stewards who aspire to use methods developed under the Three-Point FAIRificaiton Framework (3PFF) in their daily work to make data and …

Towards building a trustworthy pipeline integrating Neuroscience Gateway and Open Science Chain

When the scientific dataset evolves or is reused in workflows creating derived datasets, the integrity of the dataset with its metadata information, including provenance, needs to be securely preserved while providing assurances that they are not …