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'''[[ImmPort]]: A Guide for Submitters'''

Date: October 9-10, 2013

Venue: [http://www.rhoworld.com/rho/federal-research Rho Federal Systems Division] (6330 Quadrangle Dr. Suite 500, Chapel Hill, NC 27517)

Goals: The goals of this meeting are: 
*to provide assistance to actual and potential submitters of data to ImmPort: how to make submission more intuitive and more efficient?
*to enable interaction between submitters and those charged with managing and improving ImmPort in order to identify problems and opportunities for improvement
*to improve extraction of data from ImmPort: how can we make ImmPort data more easily discoverable and useful to researchers

'''Draft Schedule''' 
*All participants should feel free to propose additional topics for discussion by writing to [mailto:phismith@buffalo.edu Barry Smith]

<u>'''Day 1: Wednesday, October 9'''</u>

8:00 Breakfast

8:45 Ashley Xia (NIAID): Opening Remarks

9:00 Barry Smith (ImmPort / University at Buffalo): '''A Practical Introduction to ImmPort and to NIH Mandates for Data Sharing and Reuse'''
:-- overview of the goals of ImmPort 
:-- role of standards and ontologies (1) for data submission (2) for data reuse
:-- successes and failures we can learn from

10:00 Anna Maria Masci (Duke University): The ImmPort Submission Process. A View From Biology 

10:30 Break

10:45 Discussion leader: Barry Smith
:Brainstorming on 
:-- existing data management strategies and software tools to enhance data submission
:-- how to make your data discoverable and useable by external researchers

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Jeff Wiser (ImmPort / Northrop Grumman): Training session on submitting data to immPort
:-- the need to grow ImmPort's clinical submission area

14:30 Break

15:00 Discussion leader: Jeff Wiser 
: Brainstorming on identifying pain points in submission and on strategies for improvement

Evening: Dinner

<u>'''Day 2: Thursday, October 9'''</u>

8:00 Breakfast

8:30 Barry Smith: Initiating a consensus process for creating useful and usable standards and software approaches which will enhance the ImmPort submission process and guarantee discoverability

8:45 Tasking of break-out groups
:the standards should be easy to use by ImmPort submitters, 
:should be recommendable for incorporation into data
management resources (for instance CTMSs); 
:be compatible with or derived from existing
standards

9:00 Break-Out Groups (possible areas -- final division to be determined on the basis of user requests):
:disease areas (allergy / asthma / transplantation / auto-immune diseases / ...)
:datatypes (clinical observations / mechanistic assays / ...)
:FDA and other standards (CDISC / ... )
:discoverability: what kind of data would you like to find in ImmPort and how would you search for it?

Break-Out Group Leaders and Presenters:
:[http://profiles.utsouthwestern.edu/profile/120432/lindsay-cowell.html Lindsay Cowell (UT Southwestern)]
:[http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=41459681&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile Anna Maria Masci] is in charge of submission of data to ImmPort for the Multiscale System Immunology project
:[[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ Barry Smith} is ImmPort ontology lead.
:http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6635310&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=vXQ9&locale=en_US&srchid=27153661377103222322&srchindex=1&srchtotal=10&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A27153661377103222322%2CVSRPtargetId%3A6635310%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary Jeff Wiser]

Each break-out group will
:-- review existing standards and software in these areas
:-- identify future needs and strategies

11:45 Report back and discuss next steps

12:30 Lunch / Close