There are relatively very few technical platforms trying to bridge the gap between what researchers need to do to meet their FAIR responsibilities - ensuring research data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable - and how they need to do it. One such technical platform is Collaborative Open Plant Omics (COPO).
There are relatively very few technical platforms trying to bridge the gap between what researchers need to do to meet their FAIR responsibilities - ensuring research data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable - and how they need to do it. One such technical platform is Collaborative Open Plant Omics (COPO).
COPO is a web-based data brokering system that enables scientists to describe their research objects using community-sanctioned metadata sets and vocabularies. Subsequently, public or institutional repositories can be utilized to share them with the wider scientific community.
The open-source web-based data brokering system COPO encourages data generators to follow the right metadata standards when publishing research objects by using semantic terms to add meaning and to specify the relationships between the research objects. As a result, data consumers can find, aggregate, and analyze data, which would otherwise remain private or invisible. Besides, COPO helps build upon the existing standards to push the latest techniques in scientific data dissemination while minimizing the burden of data publication and sharing.
COPO supports a range of data types and repository endpoints. Furthermore, by providing a single-entry point for different systems, it guarantees that the metadata is captured in a unified way across the various CIGR Center repositories. Besides keeping these metadata alongside links to these repositories, COPO improves the provenance of these records even though institutional repositories do not support the full CG Core metadata.
COPO also supports the semantic tagging of both tabular data and free text data with ontology terms, using the Ontology Lookup Service hosted at EMBL-EBI. Metadata templates can also be created by compositing ontology terms into a single set of fields, which can then be downloaded in a spreadsheet format for completion and parsing.
The entirely open-source COPO is hosted under an MIT license on the Cyverse UK Infrastructure at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, UK.
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