Event Details
About the event
Overall Aim: Provide new insights into the ways that knowledge and data are organized and semantically represented in biomedical research.
Who should attend: This interactive workshop series welcomes semantics beginners and experienced adopters. The workshop is especially designed for people who will put this information into practice in their research or labs, and stewards who will share and apply the knowledge amongst the people they serve.
• Researchers
• Data Stewards
When:
April 7th, 9th, 14th, and 16th 2025
11AM - 1PM EST / 8AM - 10AM PST (Virtual)
This workshop series spans two weeks, consisting of four 2-hour sessions.
No registration fee. Apply by March 7, 2025.
Workshop Overview
Goals:
1. Become familiar with shared semantic resources, such as commonly used terms for data description and organization.
2. Understand models for shared governance and community agreed-upon semantic resources and how to apply them to different situations.
3. Understand and apply technical approaches for establishing and maintaining resources such as controlled vocabularies, and making them more FAIR.
Outline:
This workshop series spans two weeks, consisting of four 2-hour sessions.
1. Knowledge Organization Systems
2. Socio-technical Change Management
3. Semantic Resource Development
4. Putting it all together
For More Information:
Email: gofairus@gmail.com
Meet the Instructors
Christine Kirkpatrick
Secretary General, International Science Council’s (ISC) Committee on Data (CODATA)
National Academies Board on Research Data and Information (BRDI)
Founder & Head, GO FAIR US
Barbara Mittleman
Founding Director, Public-Private Partnership Program, Office of the NIH Director/Office of
Science Policy (retired)
VP, Clinical Development, Abelzeta, Inc.
Co-founder, WayMark Analytics
Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld
Professor and Florence G. Heller Chair, Heller School for Social Policy and Management,
Brandeis University
Past President, Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA)
Co-founder, WayMark Analytics
Pat Canavan
Senior Vice President of Global Governance, Motorola Corporation (retired)
Interim CIO and CHRO, Motorola Corporation (retired)
Co-founder, WayMark Analytics
Nancy Hoebelheinrich
Principal, Knowledge Motifs LLC
Metadata Coordinator, Stanford (past)
Founding Member, GO FAIR US
John Graybeal
Major contributor to CEDAR and BioPortal
Technical Program Manager, Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (past)
Co-Chair Research Data Alliance Vocabulary & Semantic Services Interest Group
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through a contract with the MITRE Corporation (PO202806). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or the MITRE Corporation.