Presentation Type
Lightning Talk
Date
2025-11-20
Description
The NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy presents a significant challenge for librarians tasked with guiding researchers through a complex data repository landscape. This session will provide attendees with both practical tools and illustrative examples to support open data sharing practices at their institutions. The first part of the session (5 minutes) will provide an overview of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) toolkit. We will highlight key resources—such as the generalist repository comparison chart (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946719) and a data submission checklist (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14278906)—which can be used to facilitate researcher consultations and clarify the process of complying with the NIH policy. The second portion of the session (15 minutes) will focus on the impact of data sharing, presenting real-world case studies that demonstrate the benefits of depositing data in generalist repositories. Through these examples, we will illustrate how researchers have: - Combined and reused data from separate clinical trials to create new disease models and directly inform national clinical practice guidelines. - Shared complex, multimodal datasets that have been reused by other labs, leading to new discoveries and collaborations. - Published analysis code, software, and workflows, improving reproducibility and accelerating research in computationally intensive fields like multi-omics and biomedical informatics. Attendees will leave the session with a clearer understanding of available tools and the demonstrated value of data sharing, enabling them to better support open science practices within their institutions.
Keywords
MIRL Symposium, 2025 MIRL Symposium, lightning talk
Rights and Permissions
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Repository Citation
Curtin, Lisa, "The Case for Data Sharing: Generalist Repository Real-World User Stories" (2025). Medical Institutional Repositories in Libraries (MIRL) Symposium. 13.
https://scholarlycommons.henryford.com/mirl/2025/program/13
The Case for Data Sharing: Generalist Repository Real-World User Stories
The NIH Data Management and Sharing (DMS) Policy presents a significant challenge for librarians tasked with guiding researchers through a complex data repository landscape. This session will provide attendees with both practical tools and illustrative examples to support open data sharing practices at their institutions. The first part of the session (5 minutes) will provide an overview of the Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI) toolkit. We will highlight key resources—such as the generalist repository comparison chart (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3946719) and a data submission checklist (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14278906)—which can be used to facilitate researcher consultations and clarify the process of complying with the NIH policy. The second portion of the session (15 minutes) will focus on the impact of data sharing, presenting real-world case studies that demonstrate the benefits of depositing data in generalist repositories. Through these examples, we will illustrate how researchers have: - Combined and reused data from separate clinical trials to create new disease models and directly inform national clinical practice guidelines. - Shared complex, multimodal datasets that have been reused by other labs, leading to new discoveries and collaborations. - Published analysis code, software, and workflows, improving reproducibility and accelerating research in computationally intensive fields like multi-omics and biomedical informatics. Attendees will leave the session with a clearer understanding of available tools and the demonstrated value of data sharing, enabling them to better support open science practices within their institutions.