Goals: The goals of this meeting are: to provide assistance to actual and potential submitters of data to ImmPort; to enable interaction between submitters and those charged with managing and improving ImmPort in order to identify problems and opportunities for improvement
'''Day 1: Wednesday, October 9'''
8:00 Breakfast
8:45 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
10:00 Break
10:30 Barry Smith (continued)
:Brainstorming on
:-- existing data management strategies and software tools to enhance
data submission
:-- potential future avenues for collecting data
:-- how to make your data discoverable
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Jeff Wiser (ImmPort / Northrop Grumman): Training session on
Submitting Data to ImmPort
:-- overview
:-- the need to grow ImmPort's clinical submission area
14:30 Break
15:00 Jeff Wiser (continued)
Brainstorming on
:-- identifying pain points in submission
:-- new software developed to aid submission
Evening: Dinner
'''Day 2: Thursday, October 9'''
8:00 Breakfast
8:30 Barry Smith: Initiating a consensus process for creating useful and usable standards
9:00 Tasking of break-out groups
:-- primary need: the standards should enhance ImmPort submission
process and guarantee discoverability
:-- secondary needs: the standards should be easy to use by ImmPort
submitters, and should be recommended for incorporation into data
management resources; be compatible with or derived from existing
standards
9:15 Break-Out Groups (possible areas):
:allergy
:asthma
:transplantation
:diabetes and auto-immune diseases
:CDISC / FDA-related standards (if needed)
Each break-out group would
:-- review existing data standards in these areas
:-- identify needs for data standards in these areas
11:45 Report back and decide on next steps
12:30 Lunch / Close
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