title: Research resources: curating the new eagle-i discovery system.
abstract: Development of biocuration processes and guidelines for new data types or projects is a challenging task. Each project finds its way toward defining annotation standards and ensuring data consistency with varying degrees of planning and different tools to support and/or report on consistency. Further, this process may be data type specific even within the context of a single project. This article describes our experiences with eagle-i, a 2-year pilot project to develop a federated network of data repositories in which unpublished, unshared or otherwise 'invisible' scientific resources could be inventoried and made accessible to the scientific community. During the course of eagle-i development, the main challenges we experienced related to the difficulty of collecting and curating data while the system and the data model were simultaneously built, and a deficiency and diversity of data management strategies in the laboratories from which the source data was obtained. We discuss our approach to biocuration and the importance of improving information management strategies to the research process, specifically with regard to the inventorying and usage of research resources. Finally, we highlight the commonalities and differences between eagle-i and similar efforts with the hope that our lessons learned will assist other biocuration endeavors. DATABASE URL: www.eagle-i.net.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University, Library, LIB, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd., Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA.
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vasilevsky
authors.forename: Tenille
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Corday
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Torniai
authors.forename: Matthew
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brush
authors.forename: Erik
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Segerdell
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shaffer
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haendel
mesh_terms: D003628:Database Management Systems; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D058977:Molecular Sequence Annotation; D012106:Research