Event 2: Making Metadata FAIR
June 12-13, 2023, 10:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M. EST

This second event in the “Getting Practical With The FAIR Principles” series will build on foundational familiarity with FAIR by providing participants with practical experience tackling a key challenge in FAIR implementation, creating FAIR metadata. Following an introduction to concrete strategies and tools, participants will collaborate on a set of guided exercises to generate FAIR metadata based on an example dataset. Through this hands-on approach, participants will gain experience addressing real-world social and technical challenges to make metadata FAIR. participants will leave the workshop with a better understanding of how FAIR works in practice, the skills needed to implement FAIR, and how to make FAIR a more routine aspect of their data management and/or stewardship practices.

Following the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Define the characteristics of FAIR metadata
• Describe the steps required to make metadata FAIR
• Describe social and technical challenges related to creating FAIR metadata and strategies and tools that can help address them
• Interact successfully with one or more technical tools for creating FAIR metadata

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Health Level 7 International (HL7) recently published Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Release 5.0. This major update includes dozens of new resources, increases in resource maturity, and increased efficiencies. Features include enhanced interoperability, data management, and streamlined workflows. FHIR is a standard for the electronic exchange of data between health information systems.

Link: Read the Overview

ODSS has signed on to potentially support applications to the NIGMS-sponsored Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Availability of Administrative Supplements to Advance the Use of Electronic Health Records for Research (NOT-GM-23-035). This NOSI offers administrative supplements to Institutional Development Award (IDeA) Networks for Clinical and Translational Research (IDeA-CTR) (U54) awardees to advance the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) for research by strengthening IDeA-CTRs’ EHR-related research infrastructure and explore ways of using the FHIR standard to capture, integrate, and exchange clinical data for research, with the goal of facilitating future clinical trials and observational studies.

Applications are due May 15