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Blog from October, 2014
SYNOPSIS:
“My Life in A Day” is a multipurpose smartphone diary and recall that may be used to collect daily time-use, geospatial, image, and other environmental context data in health research. The smartphone application features a customizable interface that can be tailored to the preferences of individual research participants and a built-in crosswalk that links participant customizations to data standards established by the researcher — in essence, allowing participants the flexibility of free-text response and researchers the ease of discrete response options. “My Life in a Day” was developed as a lightweight tool to collect free-living behavior data for a broad variety of research questions and designs, including clinical monitoring, behavioral interventions, and surveillance studies. “My Life in a Day” was created by Dr. James McClain and Dr. Heather Bowles.
BIOs:
Heather Bowles, Ph.D. is a Physical Activity Epidemiologist with the Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch in NCI's Applied Research Program. Before coming to the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Bowles held a research academic appointment in Australia at the Centre for Physical Activity and Health, University of Sydney. Dr. Bowles earned her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of South Carolina and her M.S. in Kinesiology from the University of North Texas.
James McClain, Ph.D., M.P.H., is also a Physical Activity Epidemiologist with the Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch in NCI's Applied Research Program. He first joined the National Cancer Institute as a Cancer Prevention Fellow in 2007. Dr. McClain earned a B.S. and M.S. in Exercise Physiology from Iowa State University, a Ph.D. in Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Wellness from Arizona State University, and an M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Impetus for and Development of a Lightweight, Versatile Smartphone Diary for Research
Speakers: Dr. Heather Bowles and Dr. James McClain
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM ET
You are invited to listen to Dr. Bowles' and Dr. McClain's presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist 
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About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: The Office of Research Information Services (ORIS) was created within the Office of the Chief Information Officer to address the need to manage the digital output of all of the research activities of the institution. ORIS has built a first pilot system of SIdora, a general information architecture and software environment based on Islandora and Fedora that is designed to be used by Smithsonian researchers to capture and organize the digital "evidence" as they create it in their research process, and use it directly in their analysis and dissemination activities. The goal is to actively support the research process as it unfolds, leaving behind a coherent expression of the digital content for a complete research project that can permanently stand alongside related publications. The SIdora architecture, which is designed to manage research output as if it were part of a network of information, will be presented and the first version of the software will be demonstrated for managing the excavation evidence of a complete archaeological site in Panama, and for an international study of mammal populations. The demonstration will show how the system enables researchers to manage and describe their own data, use it with Taverna workflows for analysis, and to expose sets of durable resources to be cited in publications.
BIO:
Thornton (Thorny) Staples is the Director of the Office of Research Information Services at the Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Chief Information Officer (CIO). He has previously been Director of the Fedora Project; Director of Community Strategy and Alliances for DuraSpace; CIO of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Director of Digital Library Research and Development at the University of Virginia; Special Projects Coordinator for Academic Computing at the University of Virginia; and Project Director at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, which was responsible for the creation of the Rossetti Archive and The Valley of the Shadow. He has also been involved with the development of information architecture for large, complex digital academic and cultural history projects in Europe, Australia and the United States.
SUMMARY:
Topic: SIdora, A Software Environment for Supporting Research at the Smithsonian
Speaker: Thornton Staples
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM EDT
You are invited to listen to Mr. Staples' presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist .
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
SYNOPSIS: Modern day research could use a hard refresh. In recent years, we've seen an explosion of activity and push for more "open science," from increased access to content and data to new tools and technology to help us address bottlenecks slowing down discovery. But for all of that development, the system is still moving slowly, gaps in training and skills still exist, and we're not moving forward in a coordinated fashion. This talk will look at how we can better work together to advance the mission of more open, collaborative, web-enabled science, and how, together, we can influence the culture of science by demonstrating new and open ways to conduct research on the web.
BIO:
Kaitlin Thaney is the director of the Mozilla Science Lab, an open science initiative of the Mozilla Foundation focused on innovation, best practice, and skills training for research. Prior to Mozilla, Ms. Thaney served as the Manager of External Partnerships at Digital Science, a technology company that works to make research more efficient through better use of technology. Ms. Thaney also advises the UK government on infrastructure for data intensive science and business, serves as a Director for DataKind UK, and is the founding co-chair for the Strata Conference series in London on big data. Prior to Mozilla and Digitial Science, she managed the science program at Creative Commons, worked with MIT and Microsoft, and wrote for the Boston Globe.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Making the Web Work for Science
Speaker: Kaitlin Thaney
Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM EDT
You are invited to listen to Ms. Thaney's presentation in Room 2W910-912 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event on the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist .
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
