TY - JOUR
T1 - A template wizard for the cocreation of machine-readable data-reporting to harmonize the evaluation of (nano)materials
AU - Jeliazkova, Nina
AU - Longhin, Eleonora
AU - El Yamani, Naouale
AU - Rundén-Pran, Elise
AU - Moschini, Elisa
AU - Serchi, Tommaso
AU - Vrček, Ivana Vinković
AU - Burgum, Michael J
AU - Doak, Shareen H
AU - Cimpan, Mihaela Roxana
AU - Rios-Mondragon, Ivan
AU - Cimpan, Emil
AU - Battistelli, Chiara L
AU - Bossa, Cecilia
AU - Tsekovska, Rositsa
AU - Drobne, Damjana
AU - Novak, Sara
AU - Repar, Neža
AU - Ammar, Ammar
AU - Nymark, Penny
AU - Di Battista, Veronica
AU - Sosnowska, Anita
AU - Puzyn, Tomasz
AU - Kochev, Nikolay
AU - Iliev, Luchesar
AU - Jeliazkov, Vedrin
AU - Reilly, Katie
AU - Lynch, Iseult
AU - Bakker, Martine
AU - Delpivo, Camila
AU - Sánchez Jiménez, Araceli
AU - Fonseca, Ana Sofia
AU - Manier, Nicolas
AU - Fernandez-Cruz, María Luisa
AU - Rashid, Shahzad
AU - Willighagen, Egon
AU - D Apostolova, Margarita
AU - Dusinska, Maria
N1 - © 2024. Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2024/9
Y1 - 2024/9
N2 - Making research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) is typically hampered by a lack of skills in technical aspects of data management by data generators and a lack of resources. We developed a Template Wizard for researchers to easily create templates suitable for consistently capturing data and metadata from their experiments. The templates are easy to use and enable the compilation of machine-readable metadata to accompany data generation and align them to existing community standards and databases, such as eNanoMapper, streamlining the adoption of the FAIR principles. These templates are citable objects and are available as online tools. The Template Wizard is designed to be user friendly and facilitates using and reusing existing templates for new projects or project extensions. The wizard is accompanied by an online template validator, which allows self-evaluation of the template (to ensure mapping to the data schema and machine readability of the captured data) and transformation by an open-source parser into machine-readable formats, compliant with the FAIR principles. The templates are based on extensive collective experience in nanosafety data collection and include over 60 harmonized data entry templates for physicochemical characterization and hazard assessment (cell viability, genotoxicity, environmental organism dose-response tests, omics), as well as exposure and release studies. The templates are generalizable across fields and have already been extended and adapted for microplastics and advanced materials research. The harmonized templates improve the reliability of interlaboratory comparisons, data reuse and meta-analyses and can facilitate the safety evaluation and regulation process for (nano) materials.
AB - Making research data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) is typically hampered by a lack of skills in technical aspects of data management by data generators and a lack of resources. We developed a Template Wizard for researchers to easily create templates suitable for consistently capturing data and metadata from their experiments. The templates are easy to use and enable the compilation of machine-readable metadata to accompany data generation and align them to existing community standards and databases, such as eNanoMapper, streamlining the adoption of the FAIR principles. These templates are citable objects and are available as online tools. The Template Wizard is designed to be user friendly and facilitates using and reusing existing templates for new projects or project extensions. The wizard is accompanied by an online template validator, which allows self-evaluation of the template (to ensure mapping to the data schema and machine readability of the captured data) and transformation by an open-source parser into machine-readable formats, compliant with the FAIR principles. The templates are based on extensive collective experience in nanosafety data collection and include over 60 harmonized data entry templates for physicochemical characterization and hazard assessment (cell viability, genotoxicity, environmental organism dose-response tests, omics), as well as exposure and release studies. The templates are generalizable across fields and have already been extended and adapted for microplastics and advanced materials research. The harmonized templates improve the reliability of interlaboratory comparisons, data reuse and meta-analyses and can facilitate the safety evaluation and regulation process for (nano) materials.
KW - Review
KW - Metadata
KW - Nanostructures/chemistry
KW - Software
U2 - 10.1038/s41596-024-00993-1
DO - 10.1038/s41596-024-00993-1
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 38755447
SN - 1750-2799
VL - 19
SP - 2642
EP - 2684
JO - Nature protocols
JF - Nature protocols
IS - 9
ER -