{"id":10342,"date":"2016-05-09T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/gmr\/blog\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T18:32:02","slug":"big-data-to-knowledge-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2016\/05\/big-data-to-knowledge-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data to Knowledge Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BD2K Updates 05\/06\/2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distributed to The NN\/LM All Staff listserv featuring links to learning opportunities and related &#8220;big&#8221; data articles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Science Opportunities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NCATS Launches the Biomedical Data Translator program: Applications due June 1, 2016. Awards will be made by September 30, 2016. For more information please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ncats.nih.gov\/files\/NCATS-Translator-FY16-FOA.pdf\">https:\/\/ncats.nih.gov\/files\/NCATS-Translator-FY16-FOA.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Data Science Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Duke University<\/strong>, in partnership with the\u00a0<strong>National Library of Medicine\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the<strong>\u00a0NIH Office of the Associate Director for Data Science<\/strong>, is sponsoring a May 12, 3:00-5:00PM forum on the NIH Campus for the release of the book,\u00a0<em><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/law\/intellectual-property\/governing-digitally-integrated-genetic-resources-data-and-literature-global-intellectual-property-strategies-redesigned-microbial-research-commons?format=HB\">Governing Digitally Integrated Genetic Resources, Data, and Literature &#8211; Global Intellectual Property Strategies for a Redesigned Microbial Research Commons\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"UrlBlockedError.aspx\">(<\/a><\/u><\/em>Cambridge University Press, 2016).\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/events.r20.constantcontact.com\/register\/eventReg?oeidk=a07echxuidnab964a5a&amp;oseq=&amp;c=&amp;ch=\">RSVP here<\/a>. The forum will explore how the Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity both constrains and facilitates access to plant and microbial materials and data for research and applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/deps\/bmsa\/deps_047575\">Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/deps\/bmsa\/deps_047575\">\u00a0<\/a>invites you to attend a two-day workshop on the challenges of\u00a0applying scientific inference to big data. For more information, including the preliminary program, check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/DEPS\/BMSA\/DEPS_171738\">workshop website<\/a>.\u00a0June 8-9, 2016,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Keck Center, Room 100, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. <strong><em>This workshop will be professionally webcast.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0If you intend to join us in person or online, please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/refining-the-concept-of-scientific-inference-when-working-with-big-data-registration-24442570386\">register<\/a>\u00a0by Monday, June 6<sup>th<\/sup>. For questions about the workshop, please contact <a href=\"mailto:mschwalbe@nas.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Schwalbe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Data Science Articles and Blog posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new blog from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/osp.od.nih.gov\/under-the-poliscope?utm_source=emailcampaign62&amp;utm_medium=phpList&amp;utm_content=HTMLemail&amp;utm_campaign=New+Blog+from+%22Under+the+Poliscope%22+Now+Available%21\">Under the Poliscope<\/a>\u201d is now available! This newest entry, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/osp.od.nih.gov\/under-the-poliscope\/2016\/05\/protecting-data-promoting-access-improving-our-toolbox\">Protecting Data, Promoting Access:\u00a0Improving our Toolbox<\/a>&#8220;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>discusses the latest ways in which the NIH Office of Science Policy is taking a lead role in ensuring that vital genomic data is shared in a responsible way.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The new White House Big Data &amp; Civil Rights report is now live with a post on the White House blog by co-authors DJ Patil, Megan Smith, and Cecilia Mu\u00f1oz!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Big Risks, Big Opportunities: the Intersection of Big Data and Civil Rights:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/big-risks-big-opportunities-intersection-big-data-and-civil-rights\">https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/big-risks-big-opportunities-intersection-big-data-and-civil-rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big Data: A Report on Algorithmic Systems, Opportunity, and Civil Rights: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/microsites\/ostp\/2016_0504_data_discrimination.pdf\">https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/microsites\/ostp\/2016_0504_data_discrimination.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BD2K Updates 05\/06\/2016 Distributed to The NN\/LM All Staff listserv featuring links to learning opportunities and related &#8220;big&#8221; data articles. Data Science Opportunities NCATS Launches the Biomedical Data Translator program: Applications due June 1, 2016. Awards will be made by September 30, 2016. For more information please visit https:\/\/ncats.nih.gov\/files\/NCATS-Translator-FY16-FOA.pdf. \u00a0Data Science Events Duke University, in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/2016\/05\/big-data-to-knowledge-updates\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NC9K-2GO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}