| March 11, 2025 | Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Virtual Summit 2025: Domain Repository Not Available: Developing Guidance for Researchers Using Generalist Repositories | This presentation introduced RDAP community members to GREI resources on best practices for data management and sharing in generalist repositories. These resources were developed to offer flexible guidance to researchers and data librarians with limited access to institutional data sharing. | Slides |
| November 21, 2024 | Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium - Presentation: Aiding Medical Librarians with Data Management and Sharing: Resources from the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative | This presentation introduced medical librarians to GREI's resource materials for data management and sharing best practices and solicited feedback from the MIRL community to ensure that the resources are useful and applicable to those working with NIH-funded researchers. | Slides |
| November 13, 2024 | RDA 23rd Plenary Meeting - Birds of a feather session: The role of generalist repositories in the research data landscape | This Birds of a Feather session explored the role of generalist repositories in the broader data ecosystem and sought input from the RDA community on their potential in adopting and setting global standards. The session aimed to identify use cases where generalist repositories could lead and enhance data sharing. | Slides |
| October 29, 2024 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: The hows and whys of sharing data in generalist repositories | In this webinar, we shared an overview of common & unique features of generalist repositories, and we discussed when to share data in generalist repositories. We also shared guidance on generalist repository data sharing & discovery best practices and reviewed real world examples of NIH-funded research shared in generalist repositories. | Slides Recording on YouTube provided by Center for Open Science (COS) |
| October 22, 2024 | NIH Library Webinar—Data Sharing: Generalist Repositories Ecosystem Initiative | This webinar discussed use cases and best practices for generalist repositories, their integration into the NIH data repository landscape, and their suitability for specific data types. | Slides & Recording (for NIH staff only, requires login) |
| October 16, 2024 | NCI Annual Data Sharing Symposium - Presentation: Resources for Selecting and Using Generalist Repositories to Support NIH Data Sharing | | Slides |
| October 8, 2024 | Generalist Repositories and the 2024 DataWorks! Prize: Advancing Data Sharing in Biomedical Research | Join us on October 8, 1–2 pm ET for a FASEB DataWorks! Salon webinar in which we will explore the roles of generalist repositories, learn about the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), and review the 2024 DataWorks! Prize opportunity, which includes a prize pool of $500,000. | Register here |
| August 7, 2024 | NNLM National Center for Data Services webinar series | This webinar explored use cases, best practices, and how the GREI repositories support NIH data sharing policies. It highlighted common features meeting NIH criteria and unique attributes suited to specific data types. | Slides |
| August 1, 2024 | FORCE2024 Conference - Session: Engaging Research Infrastructure Providers in the Transformation to Open Science | This talk explored GREI's strategies, alignment with open science principles, and role in building community consensus, offering insights for future collaborative efforts in scholarly communication. | Slides |
| June 6, 2024 | Open Repositories 2024 Conference - Session: Empowering Global Progress: GREI Coopetition's Role in Standardizing Transparency, Community, and Sustainability Initiatives | This session covered the achievements of GREI so far, including an ongoing webinar series, development of common metadata standards, a Generalist Repository Comparison chart, use cases and NIH-DMP Guidance documents, implementation of ROR, search and browse features, standardized and open reuse metrics, and MultiDatacite credentials support for consortium level repositories. | Slides |
| May 23, 2024 | FASEB DataWorks! Salon Webinar - Managing Research Data Across Multiple Data Repositories | This webinar, featuring researchers who have published datasets and data repository experts, provided examples and best practices for sharing data from a research project in multiple formats, and also covered how data repositories support discoverability and reuse. | Recording on YouTube provided by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) |
| May 20, 2024 | Medical Libraries Association 2024 Conference - Poster presentation: Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) to support NIH data sharing and discovery | This poster shares GREI-developed resources relevant to Medical Librarians, including the GREI Use Cases Catalog, metadata recommendations, generalist repository comparison chart and selection flowchart, and training resources. | Poster |
| May 15, 2024 | NIH Library Webinar - Data Sharing: Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (for NIH staff only) | This webinar discussed the use cases and best practices for generalist repositories, their integration into the NIH data repository landscape, and their suitability for specific data types. It also discussed the common and unique features of these repositories. | Slides & Recording (for NIH staff only, requires login) |
| March 22, 2024 | Year of Open Science Culminating Conference - Presentation: The Coopetition Model of Collaboration in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative | This presentation covered the GREI repositories’ support for FAIR Fair Data Sharing across disciplines, adherence to best practices, and leveraging of community standards. GREI's success in the NIH context may interest other research infrastructure providers, reducing data sharing barriers and promoting interoperability. | Slides
Recording on YouTube provided by Center for Open Science (COS) |
| March 13, 2024 | Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2024 - Poster presentation: Generalist Repository Metadata Schema 2.0 – Community Feedback | This poster provides details GREI’s efforts to promote interoperability across repositories by implementing a recommendation for metadata. This recommendation, based on DataCite's Metadata Schema, specifies fields for public metadata and persistent identifiers. GREI's common metadata fields support data interoperability, discovery, and ease of deposit, enhancing data discovery and discovery. | Poster |
| February 29, 2024 | NIH Data Repositories and Knowledgebases (DRKB) Network Program Meeting - Poster presentation: Bolstering a sustainable generalist repository ecosystem through coopetition | This poster highlighted the results of the first two years of the GREI coopetition, which involves collaboration among generalist repositories to advance functionality through common standards and capabilities. The poster focuses on the common metadata schema, metrics, and data quality assurance/QC practices. aim to reduce barriers to FAIR data sharing. | Poster |
| October 26, 2023 | SciDataCon 2023 - Panel session: Generalist repository "coopetition" to enhance data sharing and discovery | This panel session discussed the challenges and opportunities of coopetition among repositories to enhance the data landscape. It highlighted GREI recommendations, the "coopetition" model, NIH perspective on generalist repositories, use cases, common metadata schema, and metrics for reporting on NIH-funded research data reuse. The session also discussed the role of coopetition in data interoperability and tracking. | Slides |
| October 13, 2023 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: Meaningful Metrics | The GREI metrics webinar explored the context of Make Data Count and implementation of meaningful data metrics across the GREI initiative. Metrics play an important role in the path of data becoming a standalone research output and ultimately could help incentivize researchers to share more of their data. Hear from Dataverse in their efforts to expose meaningful metrics and engage in a moderated discussion. | Slides
Recording on YouTube provided by Center for Open Science (COS) |
| September 19, 2023 | 2023 NIH Research Festival Workshop: Data Sharing in Generalist Repositories | This mini-workshop discussed the use cases and best practices for generalist repositories, highlighting how they fit into the NIH data repository landscape and meet new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy requirements. The workshop provided guidance on sharing data and outputs in generalist repositories, using high-quality metadata, persistent identifiers, and detailed descriptions for discoverability and reuse. | Slides |
| September 15, 2023 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: Metadata Recommendations | The GREI Metadata and Search subcommittee's Collaborative Webinar on Metadata Recommendations invited researchers, academic staff, data repositories, and NIH staff to learn about the recommendations and their goals. | Slides
Recording on YouTube provided by Center for Open Science (CoS) |
| August 1, 2023 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: Use Cases in Generalist Repositories and Community Feedback | This webinar shared the GREI use cases, including demonstrations. Attendees were able to provide input and participate in an interactive feedback session. The GREI team also gave a virtual tour of the GREI Zenodo Community. | Slides
Recording on YouTube provided by Center for Open Science (COS) |
| July 23, 2023 | 31st Annual Intelligent Systems For Molecular Biology and the 22nd Annual European Conference on Computational Biology - Invited Presentation: The Coopetition model of collaboration in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative | In this invited talk, the Year 2 co-chairs of GREI discuss the "coopetition" model to advance repository functionality and bolster data sharing and reuse. As the NIH data repository landscape grows, the collaboration between the GREI repositories stands to benefit research communities, funders, and institutions. | N/A |
| March 27, 2023 | Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Virtual Summit 2023 - Facilitating use of Generalist Repositories to Share and Discover Data - A Workshop by the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative repositories | This workshop introduced the seven GREI repositories, provided hands-on training, and offered guidance on data sharing, data management, and compliance with funder policies. | Slides |
| February 16, 2023 | FASEB Dataworks! Salon, Using Repositories to Make Your Data More Discoverable | Repositories are an important tool for data management, specifically supporting your research data to be more findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). In this engaging salon, GREI speakers presented use cases followed by a community conversation and Q&A. | N/A |
| January 24 & 25, 2023 | Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) Workshop | This virtual event focused on developing collaborative data management and sharing strategies. The workshop included keynote speakers, panel discussions, interactive training sessions, and community feedback to inform future GREI work and enhance support for NIH data sharing. | Slides & Recordings (MP4)
Workshop Summary Report |
| December 8, 2022 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: Best practices for sharing data in a generalist repository: Metadata, data preparation, and reporting | This webinar introduced best practices for sharing NIH-funded data in generalist repositories including tips and guidance for generating high quality metadata to describe your data, preparing data files and documentation for sharing, considerations for data licensing and privacy, and reporting on open data and metrics. | Slides & Recording (MP4)
Recording on YouTube provided by NIH DPCPSI |
| November 10, 2022 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: How to include generalist repositories in your NIH data management and sharing plans | Learn how to include generalist repositories in data sharing plans as part of your preparation for the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy beginning in January 2023. | Slides & Recording (MP4)
Recording on YouTube provided by NIH DPCPSI |
| November 4, 2022 | Charleston Conference 2022 - Research Data: IT MATTERS! How Generalist Repositories enable discovery and reproducibility in Biomedical Research | This panel session presented the GREI project, the new NIH Policy for Data Management and Sharing (DMS), and gave guidance on how to select a repository for your data and properly share it. | N/A |
| October 12, 2022 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: Meet the GREI Generalist Repositories | In this panel discussion with the 7 GREI repositories, we learned about common features and capabilities across repositories as well as repositories that support specific use cases. We discovered how these repositories are working together to support NIH-funded researchers and participated in an audience Q&A. | Slides & Recording (MP4)
Recording on YouTube provided by NIH DPCPSI |
| September 15, 2022 | GREI Collaborative Webinar: Introduction to Generalist Repositories for NIH Data Sharing | Learn what a generalist repository is, including key repository features and data sharing use cases for generalist repositories. Find out how generalist repositories fit into the NIH data sharing landscape and the new NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy. | Slides & Recording (MP4)
Recording on YouTube provided by NIH DPCPSI |
