FW: Two upcoming data-related NIH workshops

[Kimberly Yang]

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Hello all,

I would like to draw your attention to two upcoming workshops at NIH that may be of interest. Both are free and open to all, so please feel free to distribute these announcements to your communities and others you think may be interested. It would be fantastic to see some of you in person for the February 11-12 meeting! You may contact me if you have any questions about either workshop.

 

• Workshop on Role of Generalist Repositories to Enhance Data Discoverability and Reuse, February 11-12
  The Office of Data Science Strategy at the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine are hosting a workshop on the Role of Generalist Repositories to Enhance Data Discoverability and Reuse on Feb. 11-12. The workshop will be held at the Lister Hill Auditorium on the NIH main campus in Bethesda, Md and Videocast will also be available for virtual attendance. The primary goals of the workshop are to: 

• Hear from generalist repositories about how they see themselves in the larger biomedical data repository landscape.
• Understand from institutional data repositories how they are creating suites of solutions for their researchers and how they see generalist repositories fitting in this landscape. 
• Consider desired characteristics of data repositories and how they relate to institutional expectations of data storage/preservation solutions.
• Explore adoption of common infrastructure, standards and federated search solutions to enable greater discoverability of NIH research data across federated data repositories. 
• Address the role of data curators in ensuring that data and metadata are sufficiently well curated to enhance discovery and enable reuse. 

Additional information, including an agenda, is available at the ODSS website. Registration will be open next week.

 

• Virtual Workshop on Data Metrics, February 19
  The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Data Science Strategy will host a virtual workshop on assessing dataset and data resource value and reach on Wednesday, Feb. 19, beginning at 9 a.m. The goal of this workshop is to discuss core metrics, use cases, and best practices to better understand open data usage and impact. The workshop will focus on two types of data resources – repositories and knowledgebases – and will bring together managers of diverse biomedical data resources to discuss community-supported best practices for data metrics. NIH Data Science IdeaScale will be used before and after the workshop to gather input from the community.
  Workshop links:

• Workshop announcement
• Registration
• Agenda

 

Thanks,

Lisa