Welcome to the E-Science Symposium at MAC-MLA
The Role of Libraries in E-science: Translating Data into Practice
Friday, October 15th 2010
12:00PM - 5:00PM
The William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
Chapel Hill
Big Science; Bench to Bedside; Big Data; CTSA; Grid Computing; NIH Roadmap; Knowledge Transfer; Cyberinfrastructure; E-Research. How do you bring these concepts together, make decisions about information services and resources, and put them into practice? Speakers engaged in the creation, storage, access and use of vast amounts of data will share their views and insights on aspects of the data life-cycle and the implications for libraries. You will begin to design action agendas with your colleagues -- after all, e-science and translational science are collaborative!
12:00pm - 1:15pm Lunch and Keynote Speech with Neil Rambo
Neil Rambo has served as Acting Associate Dean, University of Washington Libraries and Acting Director, University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries, for 2 years.
For 2 years prior to assuming this role, 2007-2009, he split his time between 2 roles: Special Assistant to the Dean of University of Washington Libraries and Visiting Program Officer for the Association of Research Libraries. Both roles were focused on exploring opportunities for libraries to engage with the science and engineering communities in support of eScience and research, and to foster e-science capacity among libraries' staff and programs.
Previously, he served as Associate Director of the University of Washington Health Sciences Libraries, 2004–2007, and prior to that was program director of the Pacific Northwest region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. He also participated in the 2004–2006 cohort of the ARL Research Library Leadership Fellows program. He completed a postgraduate fellowship at NLM and earned a BS in cell and molecular biology and an MLS from the University of Washington.
1:15pm - 1:30pm Break
1:30pm - 3:00pm The Data Lifecycle - A Panel Discussion
Four distinguished panelists will share their perspectives on data-driven science through the lenses of health care providers, faculty, researchers, and information scientists. The panelists will interact with each other and the audience to help elicit "take-aways" for each of us.
Creating: Ricardo Pietrobon
Dr. Pietrobon is an Associate Vice Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at Duke University. A board certified orthopedic surgeon, he holds additional PhD and MBA degrees. Dr. Pietrobon's research interests are focused on the study of biomedical research networks, including the processes involved in scientific innovation among individual researchers, governance of specific research networks, and policy/administration across multiple networks. Dr. Pietrobon has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles, and currently directs a research network spanning over multiple institutions in the US/Canada, Asia, and Europe.
Storing: Todd Vision
Todd Vision is an Associate Professor of Biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Associate Director for Informatics at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent). His research background is in evolutionary genetics and computational biology. Since joining NESCent in 2006, he has promoted the idea of user-driven cyberinfrastructure, as exemplified by a variety of programs at NESCent promoting scientist-driven community-wide development of informatics tools and standards. He is director of the Dryad digital repository, an innovative archive for the publication of research data that involves a novel partnership among scientists, information and library professionals, and scholarly publishers.
Accessing: Barbara Gregory
Barbara Gregory holds an MPH from UNC-Chapel Hill and is currently completing an MA in Liberal Studies at Duke. Ms. Gregory serves as Coordinator for the Duke Center for Community Research (DCCR) Virtual Library. Most recently, Ms. Gregory was the Quality Analyst for the Duke Department of Community and Family Medicine. She has 10 years of experience in quality and patient safety in the United States and the United Kingdom. She has taught quality improvement classes to residents, medical students, and other allied health students, and has co authored a web-based QI teaching module. She worked as the manager of a Community Health Center for 7 years in the UK, and, after relocating to Durham, was Director of a community-based project providing in-home chronic disease management for patients in selected low-income neighborhoods. In the DCCR, Ms. Gregory will construct a virtual library to serve community members, researchers, and trainees to develop community-engaged research projects and to interpret results. Since joining the DCCR, Ms. Gregory has participated on several Partnership for Healthy Durham Committees including: People’s Clearinghouse on Minority Health, Mental Health, and Senior Health/Keeping in Step.
Pulling it Together: Christopher (Cal) Lee
Christopher (Cal) Lee is Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He teaches archival administration, records management, digital curation, and information technology for managing digital collections. His research focuses on long-term curation of digital collections and stewardship (by individuals and information professionals) of personal digital archives. He is particularly interested in the practical and ethical implications of diffusing tools and methods into professional practice.
3:00pm - 3:15pm Break
3:15pm - 4:00pm Round Table Discussions
Participants will be divided into small groups and provided questions and scenarios for further rumination. Facilitators and recorders will enhance and capture the discussion.
4:00pm - 5:00pm Wrap up - A Future Agenda for Libraries
Small group facilitators will report highlights from their group's discussion, followed by a wrap-up with our keynote speaker.
5:30pm Drinks/Dinner (optional)
Participants are invited to continue the conversation over dinner or drinks at a restaurant in nearby Meadowmont after the Symposium. A sign-up sheet will be available during the Symposium to help those interested connect.
Recordings of the presentations as well as notes from the recorders will be available to view online after the Symposium. More information to follow.
This project, jointly presented by the UNC Health Sciences Library & the Duke University Medical Center Library, has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3502 under the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
