GREI Collaborative Webinars & Related Events

GREI organizes webinars and participates in relevant conferences and other research community events throughout the year to share repository resources and best practices for sharing NIH-funded research. Information about upcoming events is shared below when available, followed by information about previous GREI events. We hope to see you soon!

If you have questions about any of our previous or upcoming events, please reach out to grei@nih.gov. If you have suggestions for future GREI events (e.g., webinar topics, collaboration ideas, relevant conferences, etc.) please use the GREI community feedback form.

Upcoming Webinars & Events

Upcoming GREI webinars and other GREI-related events will be added here when available. Check the GREI Training & Outreach Calendar for additional upcoming events from the individual GREI repositories and other collaborators.

DateWebinar/SessionDescriptionRegistration
October 8, 2024Generalist Repositories and the 2024 DataWorks! Prize: Advancing Data Sharing in Biomedical ResearchJoin 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
October 15-16, 2024NCI Annual Data Sharing Symposium: Driving Cancer Advances through Impactful ResearchA foundational shift to a culture of broad data sharing and collaborative science holds immense promise for more rapid advances in cancer research. NCI’s Office of Data Sharing will bring together experts and stakeholders including scientists, clinicians, policymakers, patients, advocates and trainees across government, academia and industry to learn from one another and explore ways to maximize the benefits of these efforts. The GREI repositories will present during the virtual demo fair on day 2 of the symposium.

Event Details

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Past Webinars & Events

Access summaries, recordings, and slides from previous GREI webinars & events. 

DateWebinar/SessionDescriptionSlides & Recordings (if available)
August 7, 2024NNLM National Center for Data Services webinar seriesThis 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, 2024FORCE2024 Conference - Session: Engaging Research Infrastructure Providers in the Transformation to Open ScienceThis 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, 2024Open Repositories 2024 Conference - Session: Empowering Global Progress: GREI Coopetition's Role in Standardizing Transparency, Community, and Sustainability InitiativesThis 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, 2024FASEB DataWorks! Salon Webinar - Managing Research Data Across Multiple Data RepositoriesThis 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, 2024Medical Libraries Association 2024 Conference - Poster presentation: Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) to support NIH data sharing and discoveryThis 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, 2024NIH 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, 2024Year of Open Science Culminating Conference - Presentation: The Coopetition Model of Collaboration in the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem InitiativeThis 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, 2024Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit 2024 - Poster presentation: Generalist Repository Metadata Schema 2.0 – Community FeedbackThis 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, 2024NIH Data Repositories and Knowledgebases (DRKB) Network Program Meeting - Poster presentation: Bolstering a sustainable generalist repository ecosystem through coopetitionThis 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, 2023SciDataCon 2023 - Panel session: Generalist repository "coopetition" to enhance data sharing and discoveryThis 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, 2023GREI Collaborative Webinar: Meaningful MetricsThe 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, 20232023 NIH Research Festival Workshop: Data Sharing in Generalist RepositoriesThis 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, 2023GREI Collaborative Webinar: Metadata RecommendationsThe 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, 2023GREI Collaborative Webinar: Use Cases in Generalist Repositories and Community FeedbackThis 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, 202331st 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 InitiativeIn 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, 2023Research 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 repositoriesThis 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, 2023FASEB Dataworks! Salon, Using Repositories to Make Your Data More DiscoverableRepositories 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, 2023Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) WorkshopThis 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, 2022GREI Collaborative Webinar: Best practices for sharing data in a generalist repository: Metadata, data preparation, and reportingThis 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, 2022GREI Collaborative Webinar: How to include generalist repositories in your NIH data management and sharing plansLearn 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, 2022Charleston Conference 2022 - Research Data: IT MATTERS! How Generalist Repositories enable discovery and reproducibility in Biomedical ResearchThis 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, 2022GREI Collaborative Webinar: Meet the GREI Generalist RepositoriesIn 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, 2022GREI Collaborative Webinar: Introduction to Generalist Repositories for NIH Data SharingLearn 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

Presented by the members of the NIH Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI): Dryad, Dataverse, Figshare, Mendeley Data, Open Science Framework, Vivli, and Zenodo.

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