SourceData in collaboration with EMBL-EBI's BioStudies now offers an integrated workflow to make published data openly accessible and easy to find. EMBO's SourceData is an open platform that makes the data in research papers directly searchable. SourceData describes the contents of figures from scientific articles in a standardised, machine-readable format, allowing articles to be searched and interlinked using their data content.
The EMBO Journal, EMBO Reports, Molecular Systems Biology and EMBO Molecular Medicine, published by EMBO Press, will process all accepted manuscripts through SourceData and make their raw data files downloadable via links to the BioStudies repository from January 2019.
According to SourceData project lead, Thomas Lemberger, SourceData provides complete implementations of the FAIR principles to date. By curating figures and their underlying data, SourceData provides authors with a service that makes their data searchable, interconnected, accessible and downloadable as an integral part of journal publication. This process adds value by enabling figures to talk to each other, establishing connections across papers based on the experimental data.
The management and hosting of the SourceData files is enabled by an automated route for passing files and their descriptive metadata from SourceData to BioStudies.
Following this pilot, SourceData aims to partner with other organisations to make this integrated data-discovery platform available more widely for publishers and other scientific institutions to benefit from its organised system of hosted, findable data.
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