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Group Session November 21, 2025

Strengthen Research Data Resilience Through Standards Curation: MOMSI WG Final Recommendations

Plenary: RDA 26th Plenary Meeting (VP26)

Submitted by
Lindsey Anderson

Meeting objectives

Collaborative session notes:

Open session notes

The objective for this meeting will be to present our working group’s final set of deliverables and recommendations. This session will include interactive demos of our supporting outputs for enhancing endorsement of our work. Each supporting output represents key working group activity outcomes and were designed in scope and sequence building up to our final recommendations for applied adoption. During this session we will hear from invited expert use-cases for engaging in discussion. Outcomes from this session serve to promote ongoing RDA collaborations in building new community partnerships for adoption of MOMSI WG open resources, aimed to empower Multi-omics standard harmonization and continuous educational awareness.

Meeting presenters

Lindsey Anderson (Co-chair), Tim Van Den Bossche (Co-chair), Invited Speakers (TBD)

Meeting agenda

  1. Welcome and Introduction (background overview of WG aims, objectives, deliverables, outcomes, etc.)
  2. Presentation of Final Recommendations and Interactive Deliverables Demo
  3. Invited Expert Use-Case Speakers and Open Discussion
  4. Next Steps & Closing Remarks

Target audience

This meeting aims to bring together new and existing members in broadening the range of diverse perspectives contributing to ongoing working group activities. We also aim to target new partnerships with communities or organizations interested in adoption of recommendations/deliverables among Researchers (data generators/users), Data Support Professionals (data/project managers), Developers (data consumers/generators), Data Curators (data quality assurance assessors), Data Publishers (service providers) interested in Multi-omics data and metadata standards integration across Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, and Bioimaging domain areas and technologies.

Group Activities and Scope

The RDA Multi-Omics Metadata Standards WG is a multidisciplinary working group is comprised of a variety of subject matter experts and research support professionals across Omics technology domains in areas of Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics, Lipidomics, and Bioimaging. Multi-omics data integration involves merging different Omics data types and metadata capture methods using high-throughput technologies for quantification and characterization of large complex pools of biological molecules. A unrelenting challenge Multi-omics data integration often faces is the vast array of fragmented data types and data standards (metadata reporting guidelines, terminologies/ontologies, models/formats, and identifiers schemas) generated across the different Omics domains, making it difficult to manage and reuse prior to integration. This working group provides clear recommendations and supporting deliverables based on careful curation and dissemination of evaluated Multi-omics community standards across domains that serve to support flexible harmonization of Multi-omics data and metadata standard integration developments.

Additional links to informative material

  1. MOMSI Standards Landscape Review Curation Workflow & Interactive Web-based Dashboard Tool (Deliverable 1) – DOI: 10.15497/RDA00133; URL: https://rda-momsi.github.io/Dashboard
  2. MOMSI FAIRsharing Collection (Deliverable 2) – DOI: 10.25504/FAIRsharing.2fa4fb
  3. Multi-Omics Standard Selection & Integration Checklist (Deliverable 3) – upcoming
  4. MOMSI WG Final Recommendations – upcoming

Short Group Status

The MOMSI WG was recognized and endorsed in December 2023 and is actively producing deliverables through December 2025.

Applicable Pathways

Data Infrastructures and Environments - Discipline Focused
Training, Stewardship, and Data Management Planning
Semantics, Ontology, Standardisation

Avoid conflict with the following groups

FAIRification of Genomic Annotations WG
Life Science Data Infrastructures IG

What potential collaborations or synergies do you see between your Group/Birds of a Feather session topic and other RDA Groups or external organisations?

FAIR Mappings WG
Harmonised terminologies and schemas for FAIR data in materials science and related domains WG
Common Application Programming Interface (API) for machine-actionable Data Management Plans (maDMPs)
FAIRification of Genomic Annotations WG
FAIRsharing Registry: Connecting data policies, standards and databases RDA WG
Persistent Identification of Instruments WG
Physical Samples and Collections in the Research Data Ecosystem IG
Research Metadata Schemas WG

Please indicate at least (3) three breakout slots that would suit your meeting.

Breakout 1. Monday, 16 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 4. Tuesday, 17 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC
Breakout 7. Wednesday, 18 March, 13:30-15:00 UTC