February 13-17, 2023
A week of virtual presentations and workshops around all things data, presented by Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University Libraries and the Institute for Informatics (I2).
Please join us. All are welcome.
 | NIH Experts on Implications of New Data Management and Sharing Policy Tuesday, Feb. 14, 10 – 11:30 a.m. Cindy Danielson, PhD Associate Director, Systems Integration in the Office of Research Reporting and Analysis, NIH Lisa Federer, PhD Acting Director, National Library of Medicine’s Office of Strategic Initiatives Taunton Paine, MA Director of the Scientific Data Sharing Policy Division, NIH Data management and sharing experts from the NIH provide an overview of the policy, including DMS policy expectations, the applicability of the policy, how to prepare a Data Management and Sharing Plan, and considerations for sharing data responsibly. The talk will also touch on the role of libraries in helping researchers comply with the policy to make their research more reproducible, transparent, and reusable. Please complete this survey to pre-submit your questions by Jan. 31 to be answered live during a 30-minute Q&A session following the webinar. Register » |
 | Data as an Organizing Tool: How Sharing Information Can Keep Us Accountable to Community and Coordinate Across Boundaries Wednesday, Feb. 15, 10 – 11:30 a.m. Paul Sorenson, MSW Director, St. Louis Regional Data Alliance; Co-Director, UMSL Community Innovation and Action Center This talk will explore data’s power to organize: enabling different stakeholders to work more effectively toward a common goal — and hold us accountable to the communities we are responsible to serve while doing so. Register » |
 | REDCap and Your Data: A Love Story Monday, Feb. 13, 10 – 11 a.m. Christopher J. Sorensen, PhD Senior Support Scientist, Bernard Becker Medical Library Learn how to incorporate good data management practices into your REDCap projects. Register » |
 | The Quality and Cost of Shared Data: The RADS team will describe what they have learned so far Monday, Feb. 13, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Jennifer Moore Head of Data Services, Washington University Libraries Alicia Hofelich Mohr, PhD Research Support Coordinator, Liberal Arts Technologies and Innovation Services (LATIS) at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Shawna Taylor Project Manager, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Cynthia Hudson Vitale Director of Scholars and Scholarship, Association of Research Libraries (ARL) The NSF-funded Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative, a joint project between the Association of Research Libraries and the Data Curation Network, shares where researchers are putting data, how FAIR is that data, and what are the costs incurred by researchers and their institutions to fulfill data sharing requirements. Register » |
 | Data is for Everyone Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1 – 2:30 p.m. Madhurima Kaushal Bioinformatics Scientist, Institute for Informatics Brianna Magnusen, MD Senior Medical Informaticist; Manager, Data Brokerage Services, Institute for Informatics Snehil Gupta Bioinformatics Scientist, Institute for Informatics Learn about the variety of tools and services offered by the Institute for Informatics (I2), and some examples which highlight the diverse ways I2 has been able to facilitate data access and sharing. Register » |
 | How to Use the WashU DMPTool to Write a Data Management and Sharing Plan Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2 – 3 p.m. Seonyoung Kim, PhD Senior Support Scientist, Bernard Becker Medical Library Jennifer Moore Head of Data Services, Washington University Libraries In this information session, we will walk you through the steps involved in using the DMPTool to write a DMSP focusing on the NIH and NSF templates and how to get feedback from the WashU DMPTool admins directly from the DMPTool. Register » |
 | Qualitative Data Sharing: Roadmap and Resources to Facilitate Responsible and Ethical Data Sharing Thursday, Feb. 16, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Meredith Parsons, MS, CHES Senior Public Health Research Technician, Bioethics Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine Aditi Gupta, PhD Instructor, Division of Biostatistics and the Institute for Informatics During this presentation we discuss the outcomes of a 5-year National Institutes of Health funded project aimed at identifying barriers and facilitating qualitative data sharing. Register » |
| MDClone Workshop – Making a Love Connection between You and the Data of Your Dreams, Faster Thursday, Feb. 16, 3-4 p.m. Christopher J. Sorensen, PhD Senior Support Scientist, Bernard Becker Medical Library Learn to query EHR data in real-time using MDClone to generate the “synthetic” datasets of your dreams. Register » |
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