The BioSharing team is conducting a survey on biomedical standards with and for 2 major research and infrastructure programs in the life and biomedical sciences, namely the ELIXIR and NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative. The community is asked to reply to the survey, and disseminate this information to others to encourage responses.
The survey itself is at https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BioSharingStandardsRegistry. It contains 10 questions to assess your needs for a registry of standards in the life, environmental, and biomedical sciences.
BioSharing is a curated, web-based, searchable portal of standards. If widely used, community-driven standards can help scientists to broadly represent, annotate and share digital information in ways that enable their re-use, reproducibility and further exploration. Since 2011, Biosharing has ensured standards are registered and discoverable, and has monitored their maturity and evolution, and in doing so has helped provide enough information for our growing user base to make informed decisions.
A brief description of the survey, its background and scope, and a link is at https://bd2kccc.org/2016/01/15/biosharing-standards-registry-survey. Survey entries close January 31.