Conference Agenda

In the context of opening up scientific data, standards, principles and recommendations, the development of CRIS Current Research Information System) around the world makes these information increasingly intelligible and useful, as long as they have been previously prepared. In Brazilian context, the BrCRIS, developed and launched in 2023 by Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology, establishes an unique scientific information organizational model of the entire Brazilian research ecosystem. In research institutions, analyzing this range of information is strategically important to develop key indicators and outline scenarios for decision-making. This study presents a proposal of implementation of periodic ingestion of BrCris datasets into Aleia Repository, from Ibict, aiming to provide time frames of raw data relating to the Brazilian scientific ecosystem as data to support scientific and governor spheres, among the entire society.

In defeating hunger and realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) acknowledges that knowledge is pivotal and must be shared globally. To empower global progress, the visibility and discoverability of multilingual resources beyond English become critical. FAO's International System for Agricultural Science and Technology (AGRIS) catalyzes this global advancement. The AGRIS network comprises the AGRIS database of over 13.8 million bibliographic records in 90+ languages (as of January 2024) and a collaborative network of data providers from more than 150 countries worldwide, contributing to the richness and content diversity of the AGRIS database. Multilingualism through the use of different metadata schemas, standardized language codes, and use of the FAO’s AGROVOC multilingual thesaurus allows the content in AGRIS to be discoverable by different stakeholders, facilitating the knowledge sharing needed to foster global efforts to combat hunger.

Climate change health (CCH) research is currently hampered by (1) a fractured community of practice (COP) that is frequently siloed by discipline and concentrated in well-resourced institutions and countries; (2) innovative data assets that exist but are often hard to find, inconsistently documented, and challenging to manage and link to other data resources; (3) lack of access, especially by early-stage investigators, to necessary data and computing environments; and (4) lack of a centralized platform to support the domestic and global capacity-building initiatives needed to expand the COP. To address these challenges we recently launched the BUSPH-HSPH-CAFÉ (the CAFÉ), the joint BUSPH-HSPH Research Coordinating Center (RCC) of the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative that leverages the state-of-the-art CCH research, education, and policy translation ecosystem of Boston University School of Public Health and Harvard University. The CAFÉ includes a data management function, which is establishing a centralized framework for disseminating data, with complete and standardized metadata and documentation in compliance with the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) principles for data sharing. Our approach leverages the Harvard Dataverse Repository, an established and rapidly growing NIH-supported and -funded research data repository (project number 1OT2DB000004-01), in conjunction with GitHub and other state-of-the-art tools.

The University of Virginia at Wise (UVA Wise) is located on 396 acres in central Appalachia, rich in mixed land use, and biodiversity. The Appalachian economy continues to struggle due to the environmental impact of coal mining, the decline of the coal industry, the opioid crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, and now climate change. UVA Wise conducts valuable research pertinent to the problems facing the region and underrepresented communities but has no repository infrastructure or scholarly communication services. In the fall of 2023, librarians, and researchers of the University of Virginia (UVA) and UVA Wise began collaborating to preserve and provide public access to UVA Wise’s federally funded research by leveraging UVA’s repository infrastructure. A second phase involves building a UVA Wise research portal to showcase the research, its value, and scholarly communication services, providing library resources (employing students, funding digitization equipment), hosting a research showcase event, conducting student research advocacy, and assessing data to measure impact. The presentation will focus on the problems facing the region, specific UVA Wise research relating to those problems, explore the value of this research to disproportionately impacted communities, and explore the value of elevating the visibility of research at the smaller institution.