Webinar Summary

With the explosion of interest in both enhanced knowledge management and open science, the past few years have seen considerable discussion about making scientific data “FAIR” — findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. The problem is that most scientific datasets are not FAIR. When left to their own devices, scientists do an absolutely terrible job creating the metadata that describe the experimental datasets that make their way in online repositories. The lack of standardization makes it extremely difficult for other investigators to locate relevant datasets, to re-analyse them, and to integrate those datasets with other data.

The Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR) has the goal of enhancing the authoring of experimental metadata to make online datasets more useful to the scientific community. The CEDAR work bench for metadata management will be presented in this webinar. CEDAR illustrates the importance of semantic technology to driving open science. It also demonstrates a means for simplifying access to scientific data sets and enhancing the reuse of the data to drive new discoveries.

About the Speaker

Dr. Mark Musen is Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, where he is Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research. He conducts research related to open science, intelligent systems, computational ontologies, and biomedical decision support. His group developed Protégé, the world’s most widely used technology for building and managing terminologies and ontologies. He has served as principal investigator of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology and of the Center for Expanded Data Annotation and Retrieval (CEDAR).

This on-demand webinar is part of the FAIR Webinar Series. For more information about the Pistoia Alliance’s FAIR Implementation project, please contact us.

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