Contribution Guidelines

The quickest way to contribute to this resource is to submit an issue request:

• Submit new standards using one of our Omics issue templates. A new pull request will be generated automatically for you.
• Update existing standards directly from the dashboard while browsing the Omics themed standard report tables. Click on the 🖋️Update link provided on each row listed in the far right column under each themed table.

Use of persistent identifier assignments for tracking continuous curation

• Each standards listed at the dashboard are assigned a unique and persistent identifier for tracking continuous updates, version control, and curation transparency.
• See themed prefix pattern assignment examples below representative of each parent class.

Prefix	Theme	Standard ID	Standard Acronym
MOMSI_G	Genomics	MOMSI_G:00000	SO
MOMSI_P	Proteomics	MOMSI_P:00009	mzQC
MOMSI_M	Metabolomics	MOMSI_M:00002	ChEBI
MOMSI_U	Universal	MOMSI_U:00033	BFO

See autogenerated update request template for SO Genomics standard ontology example.

• For any updates that don't have a corresponding template, please start with a blank issue.
• Experience any navigational challenges or have thoughts about the dashboard, curation workflow, or collection? We welcome your feedback and kindly ask to fill out this form so we may improve the usability of this resource.

Record Removal Curation Policy

• Included standard curations cannot be removed once they have been added to the dashboard. In unique circumstances where this may be required, please get in touch with the MOMSI WG Co-chairs. *Records with a "deprecated" status at the dashboard are removed from our MOMSI FAIRsharing collection to remain as accurate as possible for community users.
• This policy is aimed to encourage continuous curation and transparency in mapping standard relationship lineage (where applicable) and to identify any potential dependencies that may exist between standards (depreciation vs. deprecation). Visit the Glossary Table to determine which Status curation term is best.
• It is highly encouraged to update any status changes to standards where applicable using our required and defined terminology ("Established", Established/Maintained", "In Development", "Uncertain", and "Depreciated").

Getting CRediT

The MOMSI dashboard contribution log captures the minimum required information (Issue, Date, Name, ORCID ID, CRediT Role, and Standard ID) in providing the appropriate attribution to community members collectively curating new standards and/or updating existing standards represented at the dashboard repository.

CRediT Role Guidance

• Existing Standards CRediT selections for "Data curation; Writing – review & editing" are applied for updating existing standards currently captured in MOMSI WG landscape review list.
• New Standards CRediT selections for "Data curation; Writing – original draft" are applied for adding new standards not previously captured in the landscape review dashboard.

Contribution Log

The below contributor fields are documented for all merged community contributions.