ImmPort

ImmPort: A Guide for Submitters

Date: October 9-10, 2013

Venue: 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;
• to enable interaction between submitters and those charged with managing and improving ImmPort in order to identify problems and opportunities for improvement

Draft Schedule

• All participants should feel free to propose additional topics for discussion by writing to Barry Smith

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 we can learn from

10:00 Break

10:30 Barry Smith (continued)

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 Jeff Wiser (continued): Brainstorming on identifying pain points in submission and on strategies for improvement

Evening: Dinner

Day 2: Thursday, October 9

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

9:00 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

9:15 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 / ...)

standards-related (CDISC / ... )

discoverability: what kind of data would you like to find in ImmPort and how would you search for it?

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