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NLM recently brought together 25 researchers from across Africa to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, for a hands-on workshop focused on curating high-quality genomic data for submission to repositories, enhancing research collaboration, and supporting public health efforts.
The Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC) turns 30! Dr. Clem McDonald, creator of LOINC and NLM Senior Investigator, reflects on its history and achievements and the ways it revolutionized how clinical and laboratory data are documented and shared across healthcare systems.
NLM has a robust history of adopting and expanding open science practices—long before the term “open science” was first coined. As we look back on the 2023 Year of Open Science, we break down the Federal Government’s definition of “open science” to see how we strengthened our commitment.
"You might be thinking that providing access to research products and processes sounds a lot like what NLM does," writes Dr. Lisa Federer in this week's blog, "and you’d be right!" Learn how NLM advances open science, a concept at the heart of what NLM has been doing since its founding nearly 200 years ago.
The 2023 DataWorks! Prize Challenge is underway, building off the successes of its first year. The challenge is sponsored by the NIH Office of Data Science Strategy, in partnership with the FASEB. We truly hope that you’ll help others enhance their data management practices by sharing your wisdom and recipes.
NLM has advanced biomedicine and public health by acquiring, organizing, preserving, and disseminating knowledge that is essential to research, medicine, and health. We must ensure information being shared and used for research is useful to those who use it, and the answer lies in interoperability.
This guest blog post is by Susan Gregurick, PhD, Associate Director for Data Science and Director for the Office of Data Science Strategy, NIH. It was originally posted on June 6 in the NIH Office of Extramural Research Open Mike blog. We encourage you to learn more about DataWorks! Prize by visiting Challenge.gov. Participants must … Continue reading Building a Culture of Data Sharing and Reuse