Supporting Public Access
10:10 AM - 11:55 AM
Balcony C


Moderator:
Victoria Stodden,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session Speakers:
Joanna Martin,
Office of Scientific and Technical Information, DOE;
Joni Rutter,
NIH;
Antony Williams,
EPA;
Victoria Stodden,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;
Abstract:
Hear about challenges and strategies for making information publicly accessible and data systems interoperable to facilitate R&D, improve healthcare outcomes, and promote greater scientific progress.
Presentations:
Joanna Martin,
Office of Scientific and Technical Information, DOE:
will discuss Science.gov as an integrated source to publicly find and access research results from across federal agencies.
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Joni Rutter,
NIH:
will discuss FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles, cloud infrastructure, NIH Strategic Plan around Data Science, standards, IP, security, and privacy issues.
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Antony Williams,
EPA:
will discuss development of the US-EPA CompTox Chemicals Dashboard and providing access to data supporting computational toxicology to the research community.
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Victoria Stodden,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
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Discussion Questions:
- How closely do agencies work together to ensure interoperability of data systems / information? What are challenges? Models of successful practices?
- What are challenges with identifying common data models and standards?
- What are your specific challenges faced with making data transparent and accessible?
- How have increased concerns for privacy, security, and intellectual property loss impacted ability to make information publicly available? What are strategies to assess risks for any given dataset / information? How can data infrastructure evolve to address concerns?
- How has movement to cloud-based platforms enabled progress and what challenges need to be addressed?
- How are data infrastructure needs resourced and how are resources prioritized?