Abstract
Today, academic researchers benefit from the changes driven by digital technologies and the enormous growth of knowledge and data, on globalisation, enlargement of the scientific community, and the linkage between different scientific communities and the society. To fully benefit from this development, however, information needs to be shared openly and transparently. Digitalisation plays a major role here because it permeates all areas of business, science and society and is one of the key drivers for innovation and international cooperation. To address the resulting opportunities, the EU promotes the development and use of collaborative ways to produce and share knowledge and data as early as possible in the research process, but also to appropriately secure results with the European strategy for Open Science (OS). It is now widely recognised that making research results more accessible to all societal actors contributes to more effective and efficient science; it also serves as a boost for innovation in the public and private sectors. However for research data to be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable the use of standards is essential. At the metadata level, considerable efforts in standardisation have already been made (e.g. Data Management Plan and FAIR Principle etc.), whereas in context with the raw data these fundamental efforts are still fragmented and in some cases completely missing. The CHARME consortium, funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Agency, has identified needs and gaps in the field of standardisation in the life sciences and also discussed potential hurdles for implementation of standards in current practice. Here, the authors suggest four measures in response to current challenges to ensure a high quality of life science research data and their re-usability for research and innovation.
Highlights
Today, academic researchers benefit from the changes driven by digital technologies and the enormous growth of knowledge and data, on globalisation, enlargement of the scientific community, and the linkage between different scientific communities and the society
Digitalisation, in particular, plays a major role here because it permeates all areas of business, science, and society; and it is one of the key drivers for innovation and international cooperation
Our vision: “A global umbrella infrastructure-helpdesk on standardisation” Based on the experience gained within the Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action CHARME, we suggest the establishment of an umbrella hub on standardisation
Summary
Knowledge and data as early as possible in the research process, and to appropriately secure results with the European strategy for Open Science (OS). Improving access to and management of data is fundamental, and we see that the importance of standardisation approaches for data collection, data description, application of the FAIR principles and for data modelling is increasingly recognised Many of these efforts are still scattered, the awareness for available solutions is scarce, and there is missing recognition that standards still need to be harmonised, connected and further developed to make the system efficient. We need to join efforts and develop a common capacity building framework by coordinating training activities led by international, high quality, collaborative Science & Technology (S&T) networks This will bridge and connect research disciplines content-wise and link the standardisation approaches they use. Become the core of a worldwide infrastructure and function as an integrators between grassroot scientific initiatives and activities governed by standardisation bodies
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