[DDI-users] MRC/ODaF Data Management Workshop, August 11th 2011, London, UK

[Pascal Heus]

A workshop on health data management, sponsored by the UK Medical
Research Council and the Open Data Foundation, will be held at the
Institute of Child Health, London, on Thursday August 11th, 2011.

The purpose is to examine the potential benefits of information
standards such as the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and the
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange Standard (SDMX) to support
effective data management and sharing amongst the public health research
community and promote greater transparency to the funding agencies and
general public.

The event aims to bring together stakeholders from both medical research
and social science communities to provide an opportunity for more
detailed discussion of the emerging issues associated with research data
management and reuse. This workshop is designed to inform, provoke
discussion and potentially help to shape MRC corporate support for data
management.

Expected participants include:

    * MRC/ESRC Strategists
    * MRC/ESRC-funded data managers
    * Public health research scientists
    * Standards development experts

The following areas will be included in the forthcoming agenda:

    * The Research Environment (Funders and government agencies)
    * Information Standards for data & metadata sharing
    * Practical perspectives from healthcare and social science
    * Building an MRC data management and health informatics network

For further information or registration, please contact:
Tito Castillo (t.castillo at ich.ucl.ac.uk) / Arofan Gregory
(agregory at odaf.org)
or visit http://www.odaf.org/events/odaf_mrc_workshop_2011.php
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